5 high-end electric SUVs available in China right now

BEIJING — When it involves China’s electric automotive market, the high-end SUV phase is one start-ups and overseas manufacturers alike are competing closely for.

In reality, electric high-end SUVs bought so nicely final 12 months that fashions from Nio and Li Auto made the highest 10 for the class — no matter gasoline sort — based on the China Passenger Car Association. Both firms bought their begin in SUVs.

Tesla kicked off the brand new 12 months to a lot fanfare in China, saying it could quickly start deliveries for its domestically made Model Y mid-size SUV.

Here are among the automobiles which have caught Chinese consumers’ consideration:

Price: 339,900 yuan ($52,500)

Range: 594 km (369 miles)

Tesla’s Model Three was the top-selling shopper electric automotive in China final 12 months, based on the nation’s passenger automotive affiliation. Elon Musk’s automaker introduced on Jan. 1 the China-made Model Y could be available for supply. Less than two weeks later, the corporate’s web site mentioned new orders would not be delivered till a minimum of the second quarter of this 12 months.

The marketed value of 339,900 yuan is about 30% cheaper than beforehand introduced, based on Chinese media.

Price: 358,000 yuan to 468,000 yuan ($55,300 to $72,300)

Range: 420 km to 610 km (260 miles to 379 miles)

Nio mentioned it delivered 2,493 ES6 models of the five-seat SUVs in December, holding regular from the two,537 models delivered a 12 months earlier. That’s regardless of the launch of one other five-seater known as the EC6 throughout that point.

Customers who order the ES6 right now might want to wait about eight weeks to obtain their automotive, based on Nio’s web site.

Price: 328,000 yuan ($50,700)

Range: 180 km (as much as 800 km with fuel-driven charging system) (111 miles, or as much as 497 miles)

The Li One SUV includes a 45-liter gasoline tank that can be utilized to cost the automobile’s battery, extending the vary the automotive can journey earlier than reaching a charging station. Vehicles come in six and seven-seater variations.

The automotive is Nasdaq-listed Li Auto’s first and solely mannequin thus far. The firm mentioned it delivered greater than 30,000 models since launching Li One on Dec. 4, 2019.

Price: 149,800 yuan to 198,800 yuan (after subsidies, for EX5-Z mannequin) ($23,100 to $30,700)

Range: 400 km to 520 km (248 miles 323 miles)

Shanghai-based WM Motor started deliveries of the unique model of the EX5 in September 2018 and claims to have handed a minimum of 40,000 models over to prospects since.

The privately held firm, often known as Weltmeister, was based in 2015 by former Volvo and Geely government Freeman Shen. WM Motor introduced a 10 billion yuan funding spherical in September from buyers comparable to Shanghai state-owned automaker SAIC Motor.

Price: 226,800 yuan to 237,300 yuan (after subsidies) ($35,000 to $36,700)

Range: 265 km (164 miles)

Audi revealed the Q2 L e-tron on the Shanghai Auto Show in 2019 and mentioned it could solely be bought in China. The Volkswagen-owned German automaker is producing the automobile with Chinese state-owned auto group FAW. The two firms signed a memorandum of understanding in October to supply extra electric automobiles primarily based on a platform Audi developed with Porsche.

Audi plans to launch six extra electric autos in China by the top of 2021.

The firm mentioned it delivered a file 727,358 automobiles to China in 2020, up 5.4% from a 12 months in the past and bucking the corporate’s 8.3% decline in gross sales globally. “Rapid economic recovery and high demand for individual mobility led to new record figures,” Audi mentioned in a launch Tuesday.