- NIO officially launches the ES8 in
China with a base price of RMB 448,000, and unveils a battery
rental plan.
- NIO Pilot is the first advanced
driver-assistance system (ADAS) equipped with the Mobileye EyeQ4
system, featuring Highway Pilot, Traffic Jam Pilot, and automatic
emergency braking
- NIO unveils NOMI, the world's first
in-car AI system
- ES8 owners will be first to access NIO
Power, a three-minute battery-swapping solution demonstrated during
NIO Day
NIO celebrates the first "NIO Day" at Beijing Wukesong Arena
with the official launch of the ES8 SUV.
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The NIO ES8 is a 7-seater high performance electric SUV. The NIO
ES8 has a base price of RMB 448,000 before subsidies, with 10,000
Founder's Editions available for RMB 548,000. A battery rental plan
is available to NIO users, which provides a RMB 100,000 discount on
the purchase price of the ES8. The battery rental subscription is
RMB 1,280 per month and enables ES8 owners to enjoy battery
upgrading services, along with quality assurance, roadside
assistance, car connectivity, and nationwide charging services. The
NIO ES8 is customized and will be made to order. Those interested
in purchasing an ES8 can place an order through the NIO App.
With both front and rear motors, the NIO ES8 delivers 480
kilowatts of power and 840 Newton meters of torque to all four
wheels. This E-powertrain enables the ES8 to accelerate from 0-100
km/h in just 4.4 seconds. The latest active air suspension on all
ES8's models creates comfortable, connected riding experience.
The ES8 is equipped with a 70-kilowatt-hour liquid-cooled
battery pack comprised of cutting-edge VDA square cell batteries.
These cells feature the highest energy density of their kind and
provide a 2,000-charge lifecycle. The ES8's drag coefficient is as
low as 0.29. The ES8 achieves over 500 kilometers of range when
constantly run at 60 kph, and the car achieves an NEDC range of 355
kilometers.
The ES8 goes beyond five-star safety. The ES8 is the first car
to have an all-aluminium body and chassis featuring aerospace grade
7003 series aluminium alloy, enabling a torsional stiffness of
44,140 Nm/Deg. The ES8 features the highest amount of aluminium for
any mass production car. With the excellent passive safety design
and 21 active safety features, the ES8 stands out among vehicles in
its class.
The ES8 is produced at a world-class fully automated factory.
The R&D, design, supply chain, and factory ensure the ES8's
premium quality. The ES8 will finish a 3,000,000 km road test
before NIO begins delivering the vehicle to users.
The ES8 has a 3,010 millimeter long wheelbase, the longest in
its class, to create a truly mobile living space. The three-row,
seven-seat layout makes full use of the interior space. The
innovative "lounge seat" and "child-care mode", together with the
Nappa leather wrap, creates a cozy atmosphere, making users feel at
home. The smart air quality system includes an activated carbon and
HEPA filter and negative ion generator.
NIO launches NIO Pilot, its comprehensive advanced driver
assistance system. NIO PILOT is enabled by 23 sensors, including a
trifocal front-facing camera, four surround exterior cameras, five
millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors and a driver monitor
camera. The ES8 is the world's first vehicle to come equipped with
the Mobileye EyeQ4, which has a computation capacity nine-times
more powerful than its predecessors. NIO PILOT's software and
hardware suite enables subscribers to enjoy upgraded services
through FOTA updates.
NIO introduces NOMI, the world's first in-car AI system. Powered
by both in-car and cloud computation, NOMI interacts with people
sitting in the vehicle and its emotion engine gives users a friend
on the road. NOMI combines the ES8's intelligence and car
connectivity functionalities to turn the ES8 into a fun,
expressive, and intuitive companion that can listen, talk, and help
drivers along the way.
NIO unveils NIO Power, a new charging experience that allows the
ES8's battery to be swapped in three minutes. NIO Power also
includes NIO Power Home, super charger network, and Power Mobile.
Power Mobile is a brand-new power service product developed by NIO,
which enables an ES8 to run 100 kilometers after charging for ten
minutes. By 2020, NIO plans to build over 1,100 Power Swap Stations
and deploy over 1,200 Power Mobile vehicles.
Powered by big data and cloud services, NIO's power cloud
connects each of the super chargers, power swap stations, NIO
Mobile vehicles, battery pack, ES8, NIO Specialist and NIO's user.
As a result, NIO's users can enjoy worry-free power services with
just one click. The same mobile connectivity is also applied to
vehicle services. NIO's services cloud also integrates each of the
NIO House, repair center, delivery center, service car, ES8, NIO
Specialist and NIO user to provide worry-free services.
NIO also announces a strategic partnership with JD and SF
Express to provide NIO users with in-car delivery services.
NIO has opened NIO Houses in Beijing, and announces their plan
to open more NIO Houses in nine more cities in 2018, including
Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Hefei,
Suzhou and Wuhan.
The Grammy Award winning band Imagine Dragons performed for the
10,000 person crowd to end the event.
"We hope that we can have more people interested in smart
electric vehicles by presenting ultimate products and services, and
then we can achieve our vision of bringing back blue skies," NIO
Founder and Chairman, William Li, said at the inaugural NIO Day.
"NIO wants people to enjoy owning a car again and aspires to
redefine the experience of owning a car. The ES8 launch is another
beginning for NIO."
About NIO: Founded in November 2014, NIO is a global
company with world-class research and development, design,
manufacturing centers and user service centers in Shanghai,
Beijing, San Jose, Munich, London, and fourteen other locations.
NIO has more than 4000 employees from nearly 40 countries. The NIO
Formula-e team secured the inaugural drivers' championship title in
2015. In 2016, NIO unveiled the fastest electric car in the world,
the EP9. The EP9 set the lap record for an electric vehicle at
Nürburgring's Nordschleife and three other world renowned tracks.
In 2017, NIO unveiled the vision car EVE and announced that the NIO
EP9 set a new world speed record for an autonomous vehicle at the
Circuit of the Americas Race Track. NIO's latest production car,
the ES8, was unveiled at 2017 Shanghai Auto Show.
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NIO U.S. CommunicationsAnnie Weckesserannie.weckesser@nio.io