A year has passed and everyone already knows the answer. The new car released at the end of last year is the benchmark Tesla model? Y's scooter "EC6" was officially released by Weilai shortly after the auto show. ET car and NP2, the second generation platform of Weilai, will be postponed until 2022, and the production car "ET7" will obviously not meet with you in the short term.
However, when browsing the website of the State Patent Office, Dian Wei seems to find that Weilai Automobile has not stopped, and has successively issued two patents on the appearance of ET7 production cars.
The outline of the new car is basically the same as that of the eT concept car. The front face still adopts the X-Bar family design, but the front and rear headlights have been changed to some extent. The headlights are not the sleek shape of the concept car, but a crease is added on both sides, and the taillights are more concave and convex. Overall, the car highly restored the preview concept car of that year.
Interestingly, we can't easily conclude that this appearance is the final production version. Almost at the same time, another group of appearance patents of Weilai was also publicized. At first glance, the two models are similar, but there are still differences in details:
Because the types of the two declarations are different, there will be differences in details, but it will not affect our comparison of the two sets of drawings. The front and rear taillights of the two new cars are different from the eT concept car, and the front and rear bumpers have also been optimized. However, after careful observation, there are also differences between the two groups of declaration drawings: the second group of declaration drawings is more obvious, and the front bumper and charging port below are different.
At the end of last year, a group of patent drawings suspected of Weilai pure electric vehicle were exposed, and the appearance of the vehicle was exactly the same as that of the eT preview concept car. Dian Wei thinks that the appearance of the concept car is likely to be patented for the convenience of stopping Zotye, which does not mean that it will be mass-produced.
So far, at present, we can always know three sets of appearance declaration drawings of Weilai pure electric vehicles, so which version is the production version?
Dian Wei summarized three versions, and the third set was the earliest published patent drawing, which was exactly the same as the et preview concept car unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show. The first and second sets are the latest patent drawings, and the details have been changed, because they have also been reported by many media. The first two versions are the final production version of et.
However, from the date of application, the situation of the three groups of pictures is that the earliest application is the latest publicity, and the declaration time of the first two suspected production models is even earlier than the eT concept car on display, which also shows that Weilai still has enough time to modify the production version, and it cannot be determined that it is the latest final version because of the latest exposure.
In 2022, Tucki P7, BYD Korea EV and other domestic electric vehicles have been listed. Is there any chance for Weilai, who is still discussing the patent design stage?
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