The pre-sale price of 800,000 yuan will be available on December 21 to compete with Mercedes-Benz EQS

According to NIO officials, NIO's new flagship sedan, NIO ET9, will go on sale on December 21, with a pre-sale price of 800000 yuan. As a masterpiece of NIO technology, NIO ET9 is equipped with industry-leading technologies including global 900V high voltage platform architecture, SkyOS global operating system, on-line steering technology, rear wheel steering system and fully active suspension.

In terms of appearance, NIO ET9 continues the family-style design language, the overall style is concise and exquisite, still uses a split headlamp design, and is equipped with MicroLED intelligent "pixel" lights, combined with Aqulia2.0 supersensitive system can achieve "bright, accurate, far" fine lighting, can prevent interference from incoming car headlights, and has functions such as lane marking, which greatly improves the safety of driving at night. In addition, the new car still uses watchtower sensor layout, lidar and forward-looking camera are placed on the roof to serve the intelligent driving system.

The side of the body is the biggest highlight of the NIO ET9, and it is also one of its most recognizable viewpoints. It integrates the design style of the sedan car SUV and uses a large slip back shape, and the top streamline extends straight from the head to the tail, like the arrow of the giant car, which not only maintains the commercial sense of the classic sedan model, but also brings strong market and future interest.

However, it should be mentioned that the ground clearance of the NIO ET9 has reached 200mm, which is comparable to the general urban SUV, which makes it look not so low, but more of a sedan SUV. The advantage is that it can bring drivers a wider field of vision, better accessibility, translation in and out and a sense of suspension driving experience.

In addition, a new bilateral lidar is added, which is integrated through the wing plates on both sides, and is equipped with 4D millimeter wave imaging radar for excellent penetration and increase the forward sensing energy, which not only improves the safety, but also enhances the auxiliary driving ability.

NIO ET9 locates a large executive sedan with 5325/2016/1620mm in length, width and height and 3250mm in wheelbase, which is similar to Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7-Series and Porsche Panamera administrative extended version.

The rear part of the body also integrates many cool techs designs. In addition to the family-style through-taillight design, it is also equipped with an active adjustable rear spoiler to further enhance the sports atmosphere and better fit with the design style of the sedan car. At the same time, NIO ET9 is also equipped with two side-backward detection lidars in the rear of the car, which forms a 360 °non-dead angle detection capability with the front roof radar, which further enhances the safety of driving.

In terms of interior decoration, according to the previously released official map, NIO ET9 will use the original four-seat layout, innovative "Sky Bridge" and "Yuanzheng Island" design to build four exclusive business class immersion experiences. Equipped with retractable rectangular steering wheel, 15.6 inch AMOLED central control screen, 14.5 inch rear political screen, 8 inch rear multi-function control screen, NOMI, full-focus AR head-up display system, etc.

What is more outrageous is that NIO ET9 also uses innovative lighting systems, changeable political tables, government-level wine cabinets, private safes, and so on. "refrigerator color TV sofa" seems to be weak in front of NIO ET9.

In terms of power, NIO ET9 is based on a global 900V voltage system, including batteries, motors, wire harnesses, air conditioners, DC-DC, chargers and other nuclear electrical components. Equipped with silicon carbide high-performance pure electric four-wheel drive system, in which the front induction motor has a maximum power of 180kW, and the rear permanent magnet synchronous motor has a maximum power of 340kW, a maximum speed of more than 20000rpm and a peak torque of 5000 Nm.

In terms of battery life, the NIO ET9 is equipped with a self-developed 46105 cylindrical battery with a capacity of 120kWh, an energy density of 292Wh/kg, a maximum charge rate of 5C, a peak charge power of up to 600kW, a peak current of 772A and a recharge 255km of 5 minutes.

Judging from the current market situation, NIO ET9's competitors include Mercedes-Benz EQs, BMW i7, Lookup U7 and the upcoming Zunjie S800 and other executive luxury cars.