Recently, NIO Day 2023 was held in Xi'an. NIO's new smart electric executive flagship ET9 was officially unveiled and pre-orders are open.
Intelligent electric vehicles have become the commanding heights of global scientific and technological innovation, NIO has carried out a full-stack layout and resolute investment around the core technology of intelligent electric vehicles, and NIO ET9 brings together the latest technology research and development achievements, defining the administrative flagship of the intelligent era with technology flagship, "dare to think, promising", is a "most decent, most comfortable and safest" intelligent electric executive flagship designed for a new generation of high-end business users.
A smart electric executive flagship for innovation leaders
The NIO ET9 reshapes the new form of executive flagship in the era of intelligent electric vehicles, with a length of 5,325 mm, a width of 2,016 mm, a height of 1,620 mm, and a wheelbase of 3,250 mm. The innovative design of the flight body can meet the user's requirements for cabin space, comfort, peace of mind and control at the same time. The 23-inch aluminum alloy forged high-gloss color-block wheels are designed with a self-suspended wheel logo and a 790mm tire diameter that is the largest in the same class. Far exceeding the 200mm ground clearance of the executive flagship of the same level, the posture is more upright and the field of vision is broader, bringing a safe and calm flagship driving experience.
The NIO ET9's iconic watchtower-style sensor layout continues to lead the times, with LiDAR and front-view cameras placed on the roof, while dual-side wide-angle LiDARs are added to enhance lateral perception through the integration of metal fenders on both sides. For the first time, it is equipped with 4D millimeter-wave imaging radar, which relies on excellent penetration and greatly increases forward perception ability.
ET9 creates an unprecedented mobile administrative space, an efficient mobile office, and an exclusive business meeting room.
The NIO ET9 adopts a native executive four-seat layout, with an interior space of 2,049 mm in length and 1,563 mm in width. At the same time, a large number of groundbreaking designs have created an unprecedented mobile administrative space. The innovative design of the "Sky Island" and the "Executive Bridge" creates four exclusive first-class immersive experiences, each one a masterpiece.
The first "administrative bridge" that runs through the front and rear rows. Length 195 meters, integrated with 20 innovative subsystems, while realizing spatial partitioning, it is also natural to become a bridge for communication and interaction between passengers in the whole car. In"Administrative Bridge"Inside, NIO has carefully designed a 360° stepless adjustment executive desk for the second-row passengers, which can be adjusted at any angle, whether it is reading and working, meeting conversations, presentations and sharing, and various scenarios are handy. The smart refrigerator is integrated under the "administrative bridge", with one-key electric opening and closing, nearly 10L large space, and a temperature adjustment range from minus 2 degrees to 55 degrees.
Echoing the "Executive Bridge", the longitudinal "Sky Island" design on the roof of the NIO ET9 is matched with the first exclusive canopy and 256-color diffuse reflection ring lights, making the exclusive and open interior space experience more three-dimensional and complete.
NIO ET9's rear first-class seats have 24 self-developed patented technologies, the only self-developed "sliding executive seat" in the same class, with a maximum backrest adjustment angle of 45°, a seat cushion width of 582mm, and 11 linkage adjustments for one-key reclining, making the comfort experience far beyond its peers. In addition, the seven electric sunshades in the whole car can be opened with one key, in order to create an exclusive and pure private territory for passengers. Panoramic interconnected executive screen developed for back-row business scenarios, application 14The 5-inch OLED high-definition display can be adjusted according to the seat position, so you can have a comfortable viewing angle in any posture.
Full-stack technology layout, using technology flagships to define executive flagships
The ET9 is the crystallization of NIO's full-stack technology layout and world-leading technologies, including 17 world-premier technologies, 52 class-leading technologies, and 525 patents, defining a new standard for intelligent electric administrative flagships with innovative technology.
NIO's ET9's "Skyride Intelligent Chassis System" integrates the three core hardware systems of steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering, and fully active suspension for the first time, and is currently the world's only fully intelligent chassis with wire-by-wire. The world's first intelligent, highly integrated active suspension system, each shock absorber is highly integrated with independent electro-hydraulic pumps, and the brushless DC motor responds quickly, which can complete information processing, calculation and response within 1 millisecond. At the same time, the suspension supports large height adjustment, 1,000 torque adjustments per second, and the four wheels are independently controlled to meet the needs of multi-scene driving, and face complex road conditions like walking on the ground.
NIO's ET9 is the first to apply the aeronautical-grade "steer-by-wire" technology, which uses telecommunication transmission between the steering wheel and the steering motor, which not only has a light structure, but also improves the transmission efficiency by 40%, and supports OTA iterative upgrades. In scenarios such as low-speed parking and U-turns, the "steer-by-wire" technology provides sensitive and convenient steering, without the need to cross hands to hit the steering wheel, with a maximum rear wheel rotation angle of 8 as standard3° rear-wheel steering system to achieve a minimum of 109 meters of turning diameter.
The NIO ET9 is equipped with China's first "global 900V high-voltage architecture", including core electronic and electrical components such as batteries, motors, wiring harnesses, air conditioners, DC-DC, and on-board chargers, and has three global firsts with a maximum voltage of 925V, a peak charging power of 600kW, and a peak charging current of 765A, refreshing the limits of industry standards, bringing higher system efficiency, more extreme performance output, higher safety standards, and a better comprehensive energy replenishment experience. The 900V supercharging system has three core advantages, including lightning charging, wide-area charging, and ultra-fast replacement, and can achieve industry-leading supercharging performance of 255km in 5 minutes.
NIO ET9 is equipped with a self-developed intelligent driving chip and a self-developed vehicle global operating system, which has a core and a soul. ET9 has China's first in-depth self-developed intelligent system architecture, ** computing platform ADAM 20 supports the computing functions of 6 major sectors: intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent chassis, body, power, and cloud domain. The ET9 is equipped with NIO's first 5nm automotive-grade intelligent driving chip, the Shenji NX9031, which is combined with the world's first vehicle-centric intelligent electric vehicle global operating system, SkyOS, to achieve the close combination of computing power and its own algorithms, and the sharing of cross-domain computing resources between intelligent driving and cockpit, bringing ultimate safety and efficiency.
Adhering to the safety concept of "every bit of safety is worth going all out", NIO ET9 covers all aspects of travel safety with flagship-level body safety, airbag safety, super sensing system, lighting safety, and full-vehicle safety redundancy design. Not only does it have a torsional rigidity of 52,600nm DEG, but it also continues to explore and expand new boundaries of safety with the strongest sensing hardware and computing capabilities. In addition, with reference to the design of aviation-grade safety standards, a comprehensive safety redundancy design has been carried out for the seven key systems of intelligent electric vehicles - drive, braking, steering, perception, computing, communication, and power distribution, defining the global safety benchmark of the executive flagship.
The NIO ET9 is available for pre-order from today, and deliveries will begin in the first quarter of 2025.
The executive flagship has always been the technical flagship. As the culmination of NIO's cutting-edge technology, the NIO ET9 will define a new technical standard for the next generation of high-end intelligent electric vehicles and lead the development of the intelligent electric vehicle industry with flagship-level chassis technology, flagship-level electric drive system, flagship-level intelligent technology and flagship-level safety standards.