On December 23, the ET9 smart electric executive flagship model was officially unveiled at NIO Day 2023。According to the official introduction, ET9 is the model with the highest research rate, starting from now on pre-sale, the price of RMB 800,000, the first quarter of 2025 to start delivery。At present, in the independent brand new energy models, the pre-sale price is second only to BYD looking up to U8。

Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, said at the event, "Weilai ET9 brings together the world's top technology and is a well-deserved administrative flagship, but also a well-deserved technology flagship.。"

From the table to the inside: Weilai ET9 meet at the beginning

At the press conference, Li Bin introduced the hardware and software facilities of ET9, with a total length of 5,325mm, a width of 2,016mm, a height of 1,620mm, and a wheelbase of 3,250mm.。

Flagship Safety Standard

Adhering to the R & D and design concept of "every point of safety improvement is worth going all out," Weilai has designed the core system related to driving control according to the characteristics of intelligent hardware, software, battery and electric drive system with reference to aviation-level safety standards.。

It is understood that the Weilai ET9 adopts the aircraft body design, adopts high-strength steel aluminum-magnesium alloy and composite materials, and creates a vehicle torsional rigidity of up to 52,600Nm / deg。

In addition, all ET9 series are equipped with 9 airbags as standard, covering 100% of the protection area of front and rear passengers, meeting all side collision conditions in China, Europe and the United States, and providing intimate protection。

Interior first innovation

In order to comply with the administrative and commercial characteristics, Weilai made an "addition" to the ET9 interior - the car adopts a four-seat layout, and creatively adopts the design of "Sky Bridge" and "Administrative Island."。The administrative bridge that runs through the front and rear rows is nearly two meters, integrating 20 innovative subsystems, and becomes a bridge for passenger communication and interaction in the whole car; the second row of variable administrative tables supports 360 ° stepless adjustment, which can cope with reading and office, meetings Talk to each other, demo sharing and other scenarios。

The rear flying first class seat has 24 self-developed patented technologies-45 ° maximum backrest adjustment angle, 582mm seat cushion width, one-button relaxation and 11 linkage adjustments. The comfort experience is far beyond the same level。

Not only that, NIO Link Panoramic Interconnection Administrative Application 14.5-inch OLED HD display, the screen angle can be adjusted with the seat position; the new smart HD projection headlights are the same as Aquila 2.0 depth of integration, to achieve pixel-level precision light control, the definition of bright, wide, far, accurate intelligent security lighting new standards。

A number of "black technology" covering the whole car

"Executive flagship has always been a technology flagship," which is the most frequently mentioned sentence by Li Bin on this year's NIO Day.。

It is reported that Weilai ET9 contains 17 world-first technologies, 52 leading technologies at the same level, has applied for 525 patents, will be the first to use Weilai four core technologies - self-developed intelligent driving chip Shenji NX9031, self-developed global 900V high-voltage architecture, SkyRide Tianxing intelligent chassis system, flagship safety standards.。

Smart driving chip Shenji NX9031

On the smart driving chip, ET9 is equipped with Weilai's first 5nm car-grade smart driving chip - Shenji NX9031。Li Bin said that NIO's goal is to better match its own algorithm needs with a self-developed smart driving chip, with one to achieve the performance of four current industry flagship smart driving chips, making efficiency and cost better.。

Relevant data show that the performance of the Shenji NX9031 chip exceeds the industry flagship 2.5 times。The computing power of one of the chips can reach 1000 + TOPs, while the industry's four flagship intelligent driving chips (NVIDIA Orin X chips) have a computing power of 1060 TOPs.。

On the other hand, the model is equipped with a central supercomputing platform 2.0, can support intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent chassis, body, power, cloud domain 6 major plate computing functions, and is equipped with dual Divine chip, another millisecond backup, in order to achieve the safety of computing redundancy。

In addition, the world's first vehicle-wide operating system - Tianshu SkyOS will also be fully and completely applied on ET9, with the intelligent driving chip, to achieve a core and more soul.。SkyOS will build a 1 + 4 + N technology cluster, covering vehicle control, smart driving, cockpit, mobile Internet and other fields, bringing users a richer and smarter car experience。

Self-developed Global 900V High Voltage Architecture

In terms of charging, ET9 is equipped with a self-developed "global 900V high-voltage architecture" (including core components such as batteries, motors, and on-board chargers). The maximum voltage of the vehicle is 925V, the peak charging power is 600kW, and the peak charging current is 765A。

To achieve a global 900V high-voltage architecture, full-stack self-research capability from cell to battery pack is required.。Wei from the research for 900V 46105 large cylindrical cells and battery packs, single cell energy density up to 292Wh / kg, the whole package utilization rate of 84%, capacity of 120kWh, but also support 5C fast charging。

Li Bin said: "The 900V ultra-charge and fast energy replacement system can achieve a performance of 255km increase in battery life by changing power for 3 minutes and starting at full power, or charging for 5 minutes.。"

SkyRide Skyline Chassis System

In addition, ET9 will also use the "SkyRide Skyline Chassis System," which is currently the only fully line-controlled intelligent chassis system in the world.。For the first time, NIO integrates the three core hardware systems of steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering and fully active suspension, which can bring a smooth driving experience like stratospheric flight。

Among them, the wire-controlled steering adopts wire signal transmission, without the constraints of traditional mechanical structure and space, which can further improve the accuracy of control and the corresponding speed.。The maximum angle of rear wheel steering is 8.3 °, can achieve a minimum of 10.9 m turning diameter。The fully active suspension adopts a hydraulic fully active suspension system, which highly integrates the shock absorber and the active suspension electric drive unit to further improve comfort。

New action of energy supplement: power on

Although equipped with many core technologies, the NIO ET9 will not be delivered until the first quarter of 2025, meaning that the model has not yet reached mass production.。Li Bin believes that 2024 and 2025 will be two years of the outbreak of high-end pure electric new energy vehicles.。In 2024, Weilai may face new product vacancies, but Weilai will have big moves in replenishing energy next year.。

In terms of the construction of the energy replenishment system, Weilai has released two new energy replenishment products - 640kW full liquid-cooled ultra-fast filling pile and the fourth-generation replacement power station, which are expected to be put into use in April next year.。

The charging peak power of 640kW fully liquid-cooled ultra-fast charging pile can reach 640kW, the maximum output current is 765A, the maximum output voltage is 1,000V, and the charging power in the station can be intelligently distributed in real time。

The fourth-generation power exchange station is the most important product in the next stage of Weilai's power exchange business, officially starting to support multi-brand shared power exchange.。In terms of specifications, its battery position has increased to 24, the maximum service in a single day can reach 480 times, and the time for a single change point is shortened by 22%。Its intelligent level has also been greatly improved, the new generation of power exchange station equipped with 4 NVIDIA Orin X chips, the whole station calculation force of 1016 TOPS, while equipped with 6 large field of view lidar。

In addition, Li Bin also announced Weilai's goals for next year: the number of power stations will be increased by 1,000 to more than 3,310; charging piles will be added by 20,000 to more than 41,000.。Up to now, Weilai has built 2,309 power exchange stations in China, with an urban coverage rate of 80%; there are 20,955 charging piles in China, and 1,263 are located on expressways.。

In the media communication meeting not long ago, Li Bin had stressed that "Wei Lai insisted on not reducing prices."。He said: "Weilai has always had to maintain its high-end positioning.。There is no doubt that the power exchange is the best way to supplement energy, there is no one。"