This fastback is 5.3m long, but there's only room for four inside
A couple of weeks ago, Nio promised to introduce a “Chinese Maybach”, and late yesterday evening such a car was revealed to the world. The car is called Nio ET9 and demonstrates a level of luxury unprecedented for a Chinese fastback car.
Dimensions of Nio ET9 are 5324 x 2016 x 1620 mm with a wheelbase length of 3250 mm. if it were a minivan, then 8 people could fit inside, but the Nio ET9 is designed exclusively for four.
In addition to ultra-comfortable seats with a huge number of electrical adjustments, heating, massage, ventilation, there are a lot of screens in the car. For each of the rear passengers – on the screen with a diagonal of 14.6 inches and another 8-inch, integrated into the center console at the rear. And on the front panel – screen with a diagonal of 15.6 inches, it is part of the media system. There are no outside rear view mirrors either, instead of them – screens.
Nio ET9 adopts the latest 900V architecture – The machine supports ultra-fast charging from 600 kW terminals. In 5 minutes the car receives a charge sufficient to travel 255 km. The capacity of the traction battery is 120 kW·h. The power reserve has not been announced, but it will clearly exceed 500 km even taking into account the large mass of the car. Nio ET9 – exclusively all-wheel drive, power plant power is 697 hp
The new product uses a «computing superplatform» ADAM 2.0, consisting of 5nm NX9031 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295. All this is needed not only for the advanced infotainment system, but also for the autonomous driving system, which includes three lidars.
As for the suspension, it is adaptive (Sky Ride) and, according to the head of the company, works better than that of the Porsche Panamera. The chassis is fully controlled with swivel rear wheels – they can deviate by an angle of up to 8.3°.
Nio ET9 sales will start in early 2025, pre-order price – 800 thousand yuan (112 thousand dollars or approximately 10 million rubles).