On the 24th of this month, NIO DAY will be officially held in Hefei. According to the existing information, this year’s two new models to be released are the EC7, which has been exposed multiple times, and the new ES8, built on the NT 2.0 platform.
And today, the new ES8 officially logged in to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In terms of exterior design, the new ES8 adopts the same design language as the ES7, and the iconic X-bar is officially canceled. It can be predicted that the X-bar design will not appear in any new NIO models and will become a thing of the past.
Although it uses the NT 2.0 platform, the innovation of the model is mainly reflected in the electronic and electrical architecture, which is why the charging port is still located on the front fender of the car.
In terms of other details, the side and rear-facing cameras of the new ES8 are not designed on the wheel arches like the ES7, but above the charging port.
In addition, the tow hook configuration also appears on the new ES8.
The size of the new ES8 body is 5099mm in length, 1989mm in width, 1750mm in height, and a wheelbase of 3070mm. Except for the fact that the height of the body is 0.6cm lower than that of the old model, the length, width, and wheelbase of the new model are all one size larger than the old ES8.
Therefore, based on the above information, the ES8 and ES7 will have a very similar user base, but the new ES8 is expected to be a 6/7 seat car, while the positioning of the ES7 is a large five-seater.
In terms of power, the front and rear motors use the same self-developed and produced motors as the ES7, with front and rear motor powers of 180kW and 300kW, respectively. The front motor is a permanent magnet synchronous motor, and the rear motor is an asynchronous motor.
According to the information displayed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, NIO ES8’s battery supplier, in addition to Jiangsu Times (a Ningde Times holding company), is also named Zhongchuang Xinhang. Zhongchuang Xinhang is a derivative of AVIC Lithium Battery.
As for other details, according to the declaration chart, the brake discs of the new ES8 have been punched. At the same time, there are 6 styles of wheels and 3 rear lower decorations to choose from.
In terms of intelligence, it is expected that only the NT 2.0 platform models will adopt the same driving assistance hardware as the current 775 model, including one Falcon LiDAR from Hesai Technology, seven 8-megapixel cameras, and four 3-million-pixel parking cameras from Sony. The total computing power reaches 1,016 TOPS with 4 Orin configurations.
Only 10 days left until the official release of the new ES8. You can make a guess at its price in the comments section.
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