This EV is a cute little cat of a car, and I find it to be the most intriguing car ever to come out of China, desirable even. Sure, there are design inspirations that look familiar, but it’s all put together in an original retro-modern manner and the car looks cool and fun.
If you don’t know it already, it’s the Ora Good Cat from Great Wall Motors (GWM), which is now officially in Malaysia as a brand. The Good Cat, or Haomao in Mandarin, is set to hit our market in Q4 this year, along with some Haval SUVs. Ora (EV) and Haval (SUV) are GWM’s brands.
This is an early preview unit courtesy of Flux. The car subscription company is running a weekly EV subscription programme for you to “own an EV for seven days” and try out the electric life, which as you’d expect, is a bit different from owning/using ICE-powered cars. Fits into your life easily or too much compromises? Flux has the Good Cat, second-generation Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Kona Electric in its electric fleet.
Here’s what we know about the Good Cat in Malaysia so far. Four variants will be offered, namely the Tech, Pro, Ultra and Ultra G. All will come with an electric motor rated at 143 PS/210 Nm driving the front wheels, allowing for a top speed of 152 km/h. One-pedal driving is available and there are five drive modes – Normal, Sport, Eco, Eco+ and Auto.
Both the Tech and Pro will come with a 47.8-kWh lithium iron phosphate battery that can provide up to 400 km of range in the NEDC cycle. It’s eight hours to fill this battery up via AC charging (Type 2 connection) at the vehicle’s max input of 6.6 kW. With DC fast charging, you can get from 0-80% state of charge (SoC) in 46 minutes at 60 kW. Both the Tech and Pro are estimated to start from RM14Xk.
Next up is the Ultra, which is estimated to retail from RM15Xk. The range is up to 500 km thanks to a superior 63.1-kWh ternary lithium battery. With AC charging, it takes around 10 hours for a full charge and DC fast charging gets the battery from a 0-80% SoC in about 40 minutes. The range-topping Ultra G is mechanically similar to the Ultra, but it comes with more equipment and a corresponding price tag of from RM16Xk.
Specs wise, the Tech comes with 17-inch alloys, LED headlamps and DRLs, LED taillights, keyless entry and start, fabric seats, a 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster, automatic air-con with PM2.5 filter, a 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system, four speakers, cruise control, two airbags, ESC, rear parking sensors, hill start assist, low-speed emergency braking and a tyre pressure monitoring system.
The Pro adds on 18-inch alloys, automatic headlamps, power-folding side mirrors, rain-sensing wipers, electric panoramic sunroof, synthetic leather upholstery, powered six-way driver’s seat, 360-degree camera, wireless phone charger, USB port for a dashcam as well as side and curtain airbags to make it six in total.
Also fitted are a range of active safety and driver assist systems, including adaptive cruise control with intelligent turning, traffic jam assist, automatic emergency braking with intersection support, front collision warning, a wisdom dodge system, lane departure warning, lane keeping assist and lane centre keeping.
The big batt Ultra gets the Pro’s kit list, but with the addition of a welcome light effect for the headlamps, memory for the powered side mirrors, driver seat memory with welcome function, two more speakers (total six), automated parking, emergency lane keeping, lane change assistant, blind spot detection, rear collision warning, rear cross-traffic alert and braking, plus front parking sensors.
The Ultra G is identical to the Ultra when it comes to equipment, but it comes with special colours in and out. The range-topper is the only one that can be had with an exterior in Hazel Wood Beige/Wisdom Brown or Verdant Green with a white roof. Also exclusive to the Ultra G are brown/beige and green/grey cabin colour options. Kit wise, what you see here should be very close to our range-topping Ultra G.
If you’re wondering if this cat is a giant one masquerading as a kitten (think Hyundai Ioniq 5), it’s not. The Good Cat is 4,235 mm long and 1,825 mm wide, which makes it shorter but wider than a Honda City Hatchback (4,345 mm long, 1,748 mm wide). The Ora’s 2,650 mm wheelbase is 50 mm longer than the B-segment City’s. Compact but roomy.
What do you think of the Ora Good Cat at the estimated prices? By the way, the current cheapest EV in Malaysia is the Hyundai Kona Electric, which starts from RM150k. The base Good Cat could undercut the Kona.
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I don’t know. Cute car. Nice design touches and interior. But the last Chinese car that came in to Malaysia, the Borgward, lived a short, uncelebrated life, and has effectively disappeared. This leaves their owners in lurch.
GWM is larger of course but perhaps let’s wait awhile….
Like our dear olde founding Ayahanda once proclaimed. “Black cat or white cat, if it can catch rat, it’s a Good Cat..” uraaaaahhh
China sell at rm67k. EV alteady declaredc no tax, Why now more double up 2x become rm150k ??? Type di google check China selling price dah tau, MOF mau tipu songlap rakyat lagi kah…?
This is car is the first car designed by the original head Porche designer that was bought over by this company. Porche head designer is working for them now. Amazing
Hello Sir,
Garmen spent 80 Billion on subsidies this year.U expect what? Tax..tax. tax lah.
Your name suits you very well. It is very sohai not to know that EV gets tax exemption here stupid to blame MOF when they are not getting that extra money. Go ask GWM instead.
Blame govt all the time!? Currently EV no tax, so enjoy while it last, GWM also price comparisons with H-Kona. Still cheaper for the range. Biz 101 lerrr. #blameculture
Blame govt all the time!? Currently EV no tax, so enjoy while it last, GWM also price comparisons with H-Kona. Still cheaper for the range. Biz 101 lerrr. blameculturejer
150K depreciation estimator
New 75K (car) + 75K (battery)
12mths (63K + 60K) = 123K
24mths (56K + 45K) = 102K
36mths (50K + 30K) = 80K
48mths (45K + 15K) = 60K
60mths (37K + 5K) = 42K
EV nothing more than a junk left. Like buying 2nd-hand mobile phone battery performance wont be as new. In the end, the phone body is redundant
U memang damn damn damn betul.
All these EV hype … a rich man’s toy.
After a while,dah bosan..buy another brand.
Just like someone,in Bolehland who likes to show off a Rm5000 designer shirt on official duty,while rakyat keep withdrawing KWSP.
Nice! We want more EV!
This car looks like my cat.
wow china has been helping our country alot making everyone in malaysia to be able to own car with high tech feature at a very low price like geely offering the x70 and x50 now gwm even cherry is coming back. china number 1
You are quite right. This decade will be the rise of Asia. Hence we can expect to see all asian cars taking the world by storm as the car industries in Europe starts to collapse due to their high operational cost. Take this Good cat for example. The main porsche designer had left Porsche and join Great Wall motors as he knows the future is in Asia. This is his first masterpiece with Great Wall and hence Good Cat may have a very good collectible value down in the future since it is First Porsche chief design for GWM
For an EV to sell well in Malaysia, it has to be from a reputable brand with strong historical presence as long term maintainance will be the main concern for all buyers as these are not considered cheap disposable cars like their other Chinese counterparts.
So I guess what I’m saying is… Good luck kitty!
Refreshing,
Affordable Porsche looks.
Porsche looks? It is designed by Porsche original designer. He joined this company. Our stupid author failed to let us know this super important info
so this car is cheaper in thailand?
It needs to be 50k cheaper to be considered. GWM shd see how proton successfully undercuts everyone yet with full featured specs.
Only reason why proton ‘undercuts’ everyone is because of government protection! Even though they are now owned by Geely, but they still get incentives and tax breaks!
But still tak laku even at Pak arab markets with dirt cheap price.
Diam la. What protection is there for proton nowadays. Looking at pitiful SST taxes they are not making obscene profits from each cars sold unlike the other national car brand. They reason they undercut the rest all boils down to greed from their OEM brands ie Toyota/Daihatsu, Honda, Mazda… Nissan too once sold Almera at 60k but now priced at 80k for the simple reason: greed. Proton was not greedy.
totoro…totoro
I don’t know but this car deserves a driver like my maid. I would drive a Bentley EV once it comes out.
i don’t know which maid you are referring to but your mom is my maid and she is driving me around now
At this price, first size, second network support, third top speed, fourth brand, firth uncertainty. How to invest rm160k for this car?
Low spec EV,
smaller battery,
longer charging time,
still no Full Autonomous.
Qute car make uncle feel young . But if uncle want to buy one, auntie will ask many cat related questions.
Love the interior but more than 100k considered expensive.