Brutal competitors in China’s new vitality car market reveals no indicators of abating. Yesterday noticed a reduction of 10,000 yuan (1,400 USD) on the worth of the Deepal S7 which means costs now begin from 169,900 yuan (23,600 USD).
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Deepal was initially known as Shenlan in English earlier than gaining an official English title. The model is majority owned by Changan and at present sells new vitality vehicles in China and Thailand. Different house owners of the model embrace CATL and Huawei and the automotive’s Deepal OS is constructed on the Concord OS from Huawei.
The S7 is the model’s second mannequin and first SUV. Designed on the Changan Turin studio gross sales started final 12 months and it’s obtainable in all electrical and prolonged vary (EREV) guises, a hydrogen gas cell model will allegedly launch sooner or later. It has a size, width and top of 4750 mm, 1930 mm, 1625 mm respectively and a wheelbase of 2900 mm.
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After the discount, the worth vary of the pure electrical model is 169,900-192,900 yuan (23,600-26,800 USD). Clients have a alternative between both the money {discount} or a 6,000 yuan (830 USD) {discount} and one other 6,000 towards choices.
Different incentives embrace free lifetime information for automotive utilization (13 GB/month) and two years of free leisure information (10 GB/month).
The EV system and vary extension system include a lifetime guarantee and there’s a free dwelling charger together with set up.
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For the primary 999 purchases there’s a alternative of six years free primary upkeep or warmth insulation movie value 2,399 yuan. They may even obtain 10 years of gold card rights which permits them an annual examination of the automotive.
EREV variations include a 175 kW electrical motor on the rear wheels and a 1.5 litre engine. Mixed vary is 1040 km or 1120 km for the 19 kWh and 31.7 kWh batteries respectively. For the complete EV there are 160 kW, and 190 kW variations with a variety of 520 or 620 km depending on battery measurement.
Vary nevertheless has additionally been within the information not too long ago on account of one proprietor of an EREV model claiming in a video that his automotive solely achieved 24.77 L/100km and even 30 L/100km. Evaluation nevertheless revealed very irregular utilization.
Firstly the info coated utilization between 13:36 on December 22 till 22:26 on December 31. Throughout that interval a complete of 20 journeys had been made with every of 7-8 km for a complete of 151.5 km. Moreover though the automotive was used for 18.44 hours solely 6.1 hours was truly driving time whereas the rest the automotive was used in-situ.
The unique put up has since been deleted and even Deepal CEO, Deng Chenghao, has personally responded to refute the story.
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