Official delivery in the first quarter of 2020.
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Author | Zhang Yi
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There is one more new car company that has overproduced this Kaner.
On December 28, Skyline ’s first pure electric model ME7 was officially rolled off at the Shaoxing Skyline Intelligent Manufacturing Plant. This model is positioned as a luxury smart electric SUV with a range of 500 kilometers and a subsidy of 368,800 to 38,800 yuan before the subsidy. It will directly compete with the domestic Tesla Model 3.
“Now the ME7 has received 8,000 orders, mainly from the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.” Skyline told the Future Automobile Daily (ID: auto-time), “The first quarter of 2020 will be officially delivered.”
The predecessor of Skyrim was an electric coffee car established in 2015. The company launched the first EV10 model in 2017, focusing on the low-end market. Former LeTV Automotive CEO Zhang Hailiang joined in and began planning mid-to-high-end product lines.
The Shaoxing smart manufacturing plant project, which produces high-end SUV ME7, has a total investment of 5.5 billion yuan. The first phase of the plant covers an area of about 500 acres, with an annual planned production capacity of 60,000 units. It mainly produces large vehicles. The factory is based on the German Industry 4.0 standard, and its four major production workshops have a total of 53 quality doors, using the “Audit” quality assessment method adopted by Porsche and BMW.
Future Automobile Daily noticed that the Dimensional Measurement and Matching Inspection Room of the Skyline Motor Shaoxing Plant is equipped with a German Zeiss Carmet measuring machine with an accuracy of ± 0.05mm, and marked “face difference” and “clearance” at key parts of the body-in-white Interval.
Batteries are the most important part of electric vehicles, and battery safety is particularly important.
In terms of battery safety, Niu Shengfu, the director and CTO of Skyline Motors, said that in addition to battery cells, battery modules, battery thermal management, and normal front and rear protection, ME7 also added rolled steel to the threshold to protect the entire Threshold areaIt is protected, and an ultra-high-strength steel plate (1200 MPa) is installed at the bottom of the battery to protect the battery system from the structural dimension.
Dr. Yan Yan, Director and CPO of Skyline Motors added that from logistics to manufacturing, Skyline Motors has special safety protection for batteries. In addition to special battery transport vehicles and battery storages, batteries must be installed before loading. After three security checks.
In terms of model planning, Skyrim stated that the company’s second model will be a small SUV, which is expected to be launched next year and will be manufactured by Skyrim ’s factory in Changsha. In addition, the company will initially launch new cars at the rate of one model per year in the initial stage of development, and then accelerate the pace to reach the goal of 8 new models in 5 years.
In the “Hurun Global Unicorn List 2019” released by the Hurun Research Institute in October this year, Skyrim was listed on the list with a valuation of 10 billion yuan, and ranked 224th with Aichi Motors and Kaiwo Automobile. At present, Skyrim has raised a total of over 6.5 billion yuan, and the Series B financing is underway.
