Chinese automakers are eager to enter the premium electric car market, as it has a higher profit margin and also offers features that will attract customers’ attention to all the brand’s products. The NIO ET9 sedan, judging by the manufacturer’s video, will be able to shake off snow on its own, as dogs and other animals do.
In the upper price range, manufacturers can equip electric vehicles not only with an individual electric motor for each wheel, but also independently control the suspension elements. If the YangWang U6 can literally drive on three wheels and dance fancy for the sake of the show, NIO has taught its future flagship ET9 electric sedan to make oscillating body movements that will help it clear most of the snow that has accumulated during parking in snowfall.
Residents of cold regions face the problem of snow removal not only in relation to the territories and roads on which vehicles must move. In just a few hours during intense snowfall, a decent-sized snowdrift can accumulate on their bodies. NIO proposes to destroy it through the rhythmic movements of electronically controlled shock absorbers that cause transverse swaying of the body. In any case, if there is no one in the car, and all fragile objects are well secured, such a trick should not harm anyone, except for particularly vulnerable passers-by.
The NIO ET9 is to become the brand’s premium model, with the price of this sedan starting at $112,000. If everything goes according to plan, deliveries of serial machines will begin no earlier than next year, just in time for the middle of the next winter season. The on-board 900 V network will allow the car to replenish up to 255 km of range in just five minutes of charging at an express station.
