Pictures shared by a number of automotive bloggers present the prototype within the engineering stage, with the entrance windshield but to be put in and the inside removed from completed.
Two pictures of what’s mentioned to be a prototype of Li Mega, Li Auto’s (NASDAQ: LI) first battery electrical automobile (BEV), are circulating on Chinese language social media, producing loads of buzz.
The photographs, shared by a number of automotive bloggers on Weibo, present the prototype within the engineering stage, with the entrance windshield but to be put in and the inside removed from full.
No additional info on the mannequin is out there at the moment.
Li Auto unveiled its BEV answer on April 18, the primary day of the Shanghai auto present, saying it’s based mostly on an 800 V high-voltage platform able to a 400-kilometer vary on a 10-minute cost.
Li Auto’s first BEV mannequin would be the world’s first to function CATL’s 4C Qilin Battery, it mentioned on the time.
With the launch of the answer, Li Auto will formally enter a part of parallel improvement of its extended-range electrical automobile (EREV) and BEV product traces, the corporate mentioned on April 18.
By 2025, Li Auto’s product array will embody one tremendous flagship mannequin, 5 EREVs, and 5 BEVs, it mentioned.
On June 17, Li Auto introduced at its inaugural Household Tech Day occasion that its first BEV was formally named Li Mega.
Li Auto expects the Li Mega, which shall be launched by the tip of 2023, to be the No. 1 vendor of all passenger vehicles priced at RMB 500,000 ($70,160) or extra, no matter power kind or physique model, the corporate mentioned on the time.
The Li Mega will break the normal notion that premium pure EVs can’t be sizzling sellers, Li Auto mentioned.
The Li Mega shall be Li Auto’s first foray into the BEV market, and it will likely be an MPV (multi-purpose automobile) mannequin, in accordance with info it beforehand shared.
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