Yahoo Autos Nio ET7 Goes 649 Miles On A Single Charge, New Big Battery Available As Upgrade For Older Cars
The Nio ET7 is already one of the longer-range electric vehicles available globally, with its 100-kWh battery pack option giving the large Chinese sedan a range of 360 miles on the European WLTP cycle (which is a bit more optimistic than the EPA cycle). Now the ET7 is offered with a huge 150-kWh semi-solid-state battery pack, and Nio’s founder, chairman and CEO William Li took one on a journey across China, going 649 miles without needing to charge.
Li began the trip in Shanghai, driving to Xiamen over the course of 14 hours (including a couple stops along the way), and he was joined in the car by Dr. Fei Shen, Nio Power’s senior vice president, and Chenxia Huang, a general manager at Tencent News, who livestreamed the journey. When the car reached its destination it still had three percent charge left, after starting at 100 percent. Li hopes this gas-beating long range “will further promote the transformation of the automotive industry from the consumption of gasoline to electricity.”
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While the Nio brand is already selling cars in Europe, its American future is more uncertain. Last year Li said Nio’s next-gen EVs will be sold in the U.S., but we don’t yet know when that would be. Nio is also working on one or two sub-brands for lower-cost EVs.
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