As impressive as NextEV’s Nio EP9 is, the Chinese electric vehicle company won’t focus exclusively on high-performance vehicles. A report by Automotive News says the company is developing other all-electric vehicles like SUVs, MPVs and even a sedan to compete against established brands like Audi, BMW, Tesla and Toyota.
According to NextEV co-founder Jack Cheng, the SUV, which is due late next year, will have a 70 kWh battery pack for a range of 531 km, and will offer a performance “as good as or better than the Tesla (Model X) but cheaper.”
“It’ll be positioned at Audi and BMW but with a Toyota price,” Cheng stated. The SUV will be built in China as part of a partnership with Chinese automaker JAC Motors. Other vehicles in NextEV’s pipeline include the ES8 sedan, which is expected to make its debut at the 2017 Shanghai Auto Show in April, followed by the BMW X3-rivalling ES6 SUV in 2018 and an ES9.
The vehicles should adopt some of the technologies of the record-setting EP9, which recently clocked the fastest electric vehicle lap at the Nurburgring. With four electric motors providing a total of 1,000 kW (1,341 hp), the EP9 will hit 100 km/h from a standstill in just 2.7 seconds, and on to a top speed of 313 km/h.
The battery packs themselves provide up to 427 km of range, and just like on your Tamiya, they are interchangeable via side-loading units. If you don’t have any spare battery packs lying around, charging the 777 V system will take 45 minutes. The price of this level of performance – about US$1 million (around RM4.4 million) or more.
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First, we have Mr Jack Ma(Ali-Ba-Ba), who broke the Internet titan/monopoly by Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Amazon.
Now we have Mr Jack Cheng(NextEV) who is trying to break the establish star like BMW/Tesla/Toyota/VW to be the leader in developing other all-electric vehicles like SUVs, MPVs & even a sedan. Anybody dare to bet that NextEV will fail ?
First things first, it is China. China is famous for having quality problem. Bad quality control. Yes they may have created many great things but would it last ?
I’m not focusing on foreign product which are made in China (eg:iPhone)because Apple will oversee the quality control, but I’m focusing on products which are developed by Chinaman.
Generally have no confidence in their products, what more a complicated product like a car?
I am not putting a bet but I want to see how well they can survive taking on Audi BMW who have a century of experience in the automotive industry in all aspects (eg: performance, quality, reliability,etc.)
The Nio EP9 maybe the fastest but lets see how well it can perform in the Le Mans LMP1
I know for a fact that whenever i/we mention anything China, most ideas/comments/logic are thrown out of the window.
Can/will U deny the fact that China is NOW currently the most sought after country in terms of products U want to export/trade with & they seems to have tons/loads of cash that can/will make any country/economy grow by their sheer numbers of consumers that have the power to purchase.
That is why most car manufacturers are willing to “co-operate” with the Chinese just for the sake of numbers/sales it generate & that means bottom line.
Are U denying that Mr Jack Ma aka Alibaba is a fake copycat that is only a figment of our imagination ?! He & Ten-cent has single-handedly transformed the Chinese internet market that even google & the people of US respected him.
I’m not saying anything from China is Good. But anything that is New will always have a teething problem.
Ever wonder why a child should learn to crawl B4 he walk & walk B4 he runs !? How did Samsung or BMW become BIG if they did not stand the Test of Time.
Give the sleeping Giant enough room/years, they will become strong/Big just like the rest of the Big names & U will Not be surprised that they will become successful.
Nothing beats sheer hard work & experience B4 U succeed or become successful. Like someone(Lao Tzu) famous said “A thousand mile begin with a first step”.
If Mr Jack Cheng can make his company stand the test of time with quality products, he will be the Next Big Thing. Shalom & Cheers …
Whatever I want to say has been mention by Karim Jabbar in the comments below.
Yes China may have a great financial backing but what I am trying to say here is complicated products like a automobile. It is not easy to take on BMW AUDI overnight… I repeat overnight. I’m not saying they can’t but if they are committed and able to maintain quality, they definitely can be comparable to the German giants in the future but definitely not anytime soon.
By the way, Jack Ma did not develop any sophisticated product… he basically started up an online shopping company, where all you need is businessman driven attitude (easily found in China) and servers. How sophisticated is that compared to developing a car?
Another thing about China is that most of them (I’m not saying all) are economically business driven/profit driven, they are passionate about the sales volume & profit, more than the creating a great product itself which explains why most (again not saying all) of their products have quality issues, they are more willing to sacrifice the built quality to save cost for more profit. This happens to any other corporate around the world but as far as I know China is most famous for this.
Ps… I don’t hate China as much as I may sound … HuaWei is creating great products… Xiaomi is catching up…
CHeers to you tooo….
Jack Ma can thank the communist party for their great firewall policy that basically isolates 800m+ internet users from Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, Blogspot, etc. The list goes on and on.
Secondly, China startups are impatient. Well, their investors are impatient. Remember Qoros? Their sales is yet to beat Proton. LeEco. Atieva. Venucia. Countless others new manufacturers have come and gone together with the changing appetite of the investors.
BYD is doing relatively well selling electric cars, but even that after many years of trying (having its foundation in passenger car manufacturing is a boost) and getting good financial backing.
Imagine all these startups backed by internet billionaires. They (and everyone) thinks making a car is easy. A few laptop batteries, a motor, a platform onto which 4 wheels are slapped on and tada you got yourself a car. The reality is more complicated than this.
NextEV is so far doing all the right things. But remember it is still yet to put a production ready car on the road. And that in itself is a reason to be cautious about their prospects.
Finally good to hear someone going to develop an eV MPV.
Ini kereta NCAP berapa bintang?
any 2 bit car company can produce an electric car. however the unique selling point of tesla is autonomous cars which can drive itself.