On December 24, 2022, NIO Day 2022 will be held in Hefei. This year NIO Day will continue to adopt a bidding system. There are 10 candidate cities and more than 95,000 people participated in the voting. Hefei, where NIO’s China headquarters is located, was finally selected to be

On December 24, 2022, NIO Day 2022 was held in Hefei.

This year NIO Day will continue to adopt a bidding system. There are 10 candidate cities, and more than 95,000 people participated in the voting. It was finally selected to be held in Hefei, where NIO 's China headquarters is located. NIO users are deeply involved in all aspects of this NIO Day. More than 1,400 users participated in the co-creation of NIO Day, and 717 user volunteers from Hefei and all over the country warmly welcomed riders across the country. The 2022 NIO Band, formed by NIO user Huang Yida and others, performed the annual theme song "Feel the Light" live, conveying the value proposition of "serious living" and emotional resonance . The user charity bazaar, launched by the Anhui Charity Federation and NIO User Trust, was open to NIO users and Hefei citizens at Hall 5 of the Hefei Binhu International Convention and Exhibition Center on that day. All proceeds from the charity sale will be donated to the Anhui Charity Federation, and the NIO User Trust will match the charity sale proceeds 1:1, becoming a vivid footnote for the NIO community to give back to the society.

NIO released the smart electric flagship coupe SUV EC7 and the all-scenario smart electric flagship SUV new ES8. Both models are born from NIO's latest second-generation technology platform, creating an experience for users that exceeds expectations in terms of design, performance, comfort, intelligence, and safety.

smart electric flagship coupe SUV EC7

EC7 starts at 488,000 yuan for a model equipped with a 75kWh battery pack; 546,000 yuan for a model equipped with a 100kWh battery pack; and 418,000 yuan for the BaaS solution. Pre-orders are open on the NIO APP from now on, and delivery is expected to begin in May 2023.

The smart electric flagship coupe SUV EC7 is NIO's newly designed mid-to-large flagship coupe SUV. It interprets NIO's elegant features to the extreme and will become the aesthetic benchmark for coupe SUVs.

EC7 is equipped with air suspension and adopts NIO's new generation of high-efficiency electric drive platform. The front and rear dual motors have a maximum power of 480kW, an acceleration time of 100 kilometers per hour is 3.8 seconds, and the shortest braking distance from 100 kilometers is 33.9 meters.

EC7 adopts an active lifting rear wing for the first time, which not only creates the visual sportiness of EC7, but also improves the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle. The rear wing provides two gears: drag reduction and top speed, which respectively provide the functions of drag reduction and increase downforce. The EC7’s drag coefficient is as low as 0.230Cd, making it “the SUV with the lowest drag coefficient in the world.”

EC7 adopts a panoramic canopy glass with an area of ​​1.94 square meters. It has an optional intelligent dimming panoramic canopy. For the first time, black and gray neutral base colors are used in electrochromic canopy glass. The third generation flexible electrochromic technology (EC) provides 5 levels of light transmittance adjustment.

Full-scenario smart electric flagship SUV The new ES8

The new ES8 is equipped with a 75kWh battery pack model with a starting price of 528,000 yuan; the executive version with a 75kWh battery pack model is priced at 548,000 yuan; the BaaS solution is priced at 478,000 yuan. The new ES8 signature version starts at 638,000 yuan, and the BaaS plan starts at 510,000 yuan. Pre-orders are open on the NIO APP from now on, and delivery is expected to begin in June 2023.

The new ES8, the first iteration of the all-scenario smart electric flagship SUV, is a medium to large six-seater SUV built for professionals and senior managers from all walks of life, meeting the needs of users in all scenarios such as work, family, socializing, and exploring.

The design of the new ES8 represents the most advanced expression of NIO's second-generation design language on an SUV model. The appearance adopts the "Design for AD" design concept to achieve the integration of functionality and design, making the new ES8's drag coefficient only 0.250Cd.

The new ES8 also uses a new generation of high-efficiency electric drive platform. The maximum power of the front and rear dual motors is 480kW, and the acceleration time from 100 kilometers is 4.1 seconds. With six-piston brake calipers, the shortest braking distance from 100 kilometers is 34.3 meters. Through the IPB brake-by-wire system, intelligent dual-chamber air suspension and self-developed ICC intelligent chassis domain controller, the driving quality and adaptability are greatly improved.

The new ES8 applies the self-developed NIO high-end seating platform for the first time. The driver's seat supports shoulder adjustment. The newly upgraded Queen's co-pilot can achieve a zero-gravity posture through one-click comfort mode.

The second row of independent seats has a width of 550 mm and is equipped with leg rests. The one-click comfort mode creates a 135° comfortable posture. The combination of digital layer + storage layer between the second row center armrest creates a new "executive island" layout. The digital layer provides NIO mobile phone and car-machine interconnection and mobile phone wireless charging, cup holders, storage and other functions; the storage layer can choose car refrigerator .

The third row of seats adopts a wrap-around design, equipped with seat heating and electric angle adjustment functions, and provides cup holders and Type-C charging interface. The ES8 is also available in a version equipped with two rows of independent seats and a central aisle, making it easier to enter and exit the third row. With three rows and five zones of independent air conditioning and fresh air system , every seat in ES8 is extremely comfortable. The EC7 also uses this high-end seating platform.

The new ES8 uses intelligent multi-beam headlights.

With the support of lidar , combined with front-view camera and millimeter wave radar , the new ES8 can automatically detect Measure road conditions and guide the lighting system to achieve precise beam distribution; it can provide a variety of adaptive light patterns to adapt to various common driving scenarios including low-speed towns, urban roads, medium-speed rural roads, high-speed roads, turns, dynamic continuous turns, intelligent high-beam anti-glare for meeting cars, intelligent high-beam anti-glare for following cars, and anti-glare road signs. The EC7 is also equipped with this headlight.

intelligent standard configuration makes two new cars

EC7 and new ES8 equipped with NIO's latest Banyan intelligent system, including the Aquila super-sensing system composed of 33 high-performance sensors such as ultra-long-range lidar and 8-megapixel camera, and the Adam supercomputing platform composed of 4 NVIDIA Drive Orin

Both models come standard with NIO's PanoCinema panoramic digital cockpit - the world's first in-vehicle artificial intelligence assistant NOMI, equipped with Dolby A digital cockpit composed of a 7.1.4 immersive sound system with Atmos Dolby panoramic sound technology, waterfall-type surround ambient lighting, a 12.8-inch AMOLED central control screen, and high-performance AR and VR equipment, turning the cockpit into an "immersive digital space" with multi-sensory linkage in the entire scene. The power of the ES8 sound system has been upgraded to 20 channels of 2230W, and comes standard with an enhanced entertainment host with built-in N-Box, enabling PanoCinema 3DoF cinema, AR/VR multi-person viewing, and AR glasses direct connection. At present, NIO users can already enjoy thousands of Dolby music, "vinyl" records, giant-screen movies and even NIO Day AR live broadcasts in the car through the PanoCinema panoramic digital cockpit.

In terms of intelligent driving, in addition to NOP+, NIO will also gradually implement high-speed pilot power swapping in the first half of 2023. Users can initiate navigation through EC7 and the new ES8. After that, the vehicle can automatically complete power-up route planning on the highway, intelligently navigate to the power swap station, autonomously complete the power swap and automatically drive out of the service area and return to the highway.

In 2023, NIO will build more than 1,700 battery swap stations and more than 20,000 charging piles in China. This NIO Day, Weilai officially released the third-generation power swap station and 500kW ultra-fast charging. The third-generation power swap station adopts a new three-station collaborative power swap mode. Compared with the second-generation power swap station, the service capacity is increased by 30%. The maximum power swap capacity in a single day is increased to 408 times, and the single power swap time is further shortened. The third-generation power swap station will also be equipped with 2 lidar and 2 NVIDIA OrinX chips, with a total computing power of 508TOPS, which can realize the vehicle summoning power swap function. NIO's ultra-fast charging has a maximum current of 650A and a maximum power of 500kW. It only takes 20 minutes to charge a 100kWh battery pack from 10% to 80%.

"Feel the Light, everyone who lives seriously is the light of the ordinary world, which can warm themselves and illuminate others." Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, said: "The NIO community is thriving with the support of nearly 300,000 users. The encouragement and trust of users have always brought hope to NIO. In 2023, NIO will provide better products, technologies and services to bring users a better smart electric vehicle experience."