NIO ES8, an electric car that consumes 35-40 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers

“Contribute to emission reduction for blue skies”

"You have contributed xxx grams of carbon reduction to blue skies."

This is quite embarrassing. Let me explain to my friends at NIO: NIO ES8 consumes 30-40 kWh of electricity per 100 km, and even up to one kWh per kilometer. Friends, this horrible level of energy consumption cannot be called "carbon reduction". Just ask how many kWh of electricity a family of three uses in a month. Driving a NIO electric car is equivalent to spraying carbon dioxide (and other emissions) into the air.

And the scattering of sunlight when it passes through the atmosphere is the reason why the sky looks blue, and it has nothing to do with carbon dioxide. Whether you emit carbon dioxide or not, the sky will still be blue. So this statement is bullshit. After every ride of NIO, the correct summary should be:

"You drove NIO for xx kilometers this time, indirectly emitting a huge amount of carbon dioxide. You didn't make any positive contribution to the blue sky, but it doesn't seem to have any negative impact either. Blue Sky doesn't bother to pay attention to you, I wish you a happy life."

“Better service than a Rolls Royce”

In addition to environmental protection, the concept that NIO talks about most is "service".

Although the NIO ES8 can only run more than 100 kilometers on a full charge, and although NIO has many faults, NIO has prepared a large, extremely caring and meticulous service team that is losing a lot of money no matter how you look at it, which is something other brands of cars do not have.

Your NIO is out of power, and the service team will add it for you;

If your NIO breaks down, the service team will tow it away and give you a replacement car.

Your Nio is stuck on a super-high trunk road in the central urban area of ​​the capital, and there are more than a dozen service personnel in the WeChat group to calm you down.

Traditional thinking holds that a good restaurant is one with an elegant environment and delicious and high-quality food.

Weilai's subversive thinking seems to be that if a customer vomits and has diarrhea after dining at a restaurant, the restaurant should provide a diamond-studded gold basin for the customer to vomit in, and have 15 people standing by with toilet paper. If a customer faints, the restaurant should use the most high-end ambulance, the most professional medical staff, and escort the customer to the best hospital and the most expensive ICU. This is what a good restaurant does.

Come on, customers just want to have a meal. Weilai's complicated and lengthy so-called high-end services are just to cover up those ridiculous shortcomings.

Driving NIO ES8 to Northeast China

Li Bin said, "It is more convenient to recharge a car than to refuel one" and "NIO can go wherever a gasoline car can go." With this belief, we started the NIO ES8's trip to Northeast China.

Although NIO will send a service team to follow us, we decided to drive another support vehicle to ensure the safety of the trip. I enthusiastically suggested using the Land Cruiser as a support vehicle, but Shuaiwanzi praised his newly bought manual transmission Touran, saying that it was not only easy to drive, but also comfortable to sit in the second row. After hearing this, we became more interested in the Touran and finally decided to use the Touran as a support vehicle. Some people may ask, the Land Cruiser is understandable, but can a family car like the Touran also be a support vehicle? Yes, in Northeast China, the engine is the support.

I have experienced ES8 for a long time, and the driving and riding experience are very bad, so there is no need to verify it again. What does it feel like to sit in a NIO ES8 without heating at minus 30 degrees Celsius, wearing cotton pants and a cotton hat, the phone is frozen and turned off, and the body below the waist is numb... I feel very miserable when I think about the unforgettable cold and despair. Before leaving, Shuaiwanzi, Liu Yue and I agreed that we would never drive or sit in the NIO ES8, and we must always stay in the Touran.

We told this good idea to several other friends in the same industry, and they were all very indignant. They all say that we should share the hardship, so why don't you two drive the ES8?

But the reasons I prepared in advance are irrefutable: NIO has 8 microphones and 10 cameras inside and outside the car, and the conversations and images inside the car are probably not private. If NIO finds out that these Weibo car experts are sitting in the car and going to Northeast China, and they want to kill us with the help of the OTA function, it will be a big loss for my country's car review industry. The biggest risk for you when driving ES8 is frostbite, while we are at risk of being killed when driving ES8. We should choose the lesser of two evils, not that we have different difficulties. Do you think this is reasonable?

After hearing this, my friends looked serious and said, "That makes sense, you should drive a Touran!"

During this trip to Northeast China, NIO developed a very comprehensive service plan for us: sending two employees to drive a charging car to charge our NIO ES8 throughout the journey. Considering that it is unrealistic for the charging car to follow behind us throughout the journey, the final plan was to keep in touch with the charging car throughout the journey and agree to meet up every 150 kilometers or so to charge. This ensures that the people on the ES8 will not be in danger of life due to the extremely cold environment in Northeast China.

Although I prepared myself mentally, I was still shocked when I first saw NIO's diesel charging truck. I always thought that the farce of "NIO relies on charging trucks to charge, and charging trucks rely on Isuzu flatbed trucks to transport" in September 2018 was the peak of absurdity, but when this modified diesel Iveco closed truck really appeared in front of me, I still realized the limitations of my imagination.

The Iveco in front of me is packed full. In addition to the generator, there is also a huge fuel tank of more than 100 liters for the generator. An interesting phenomenon is that when NIO used pure electric vehicles, the body of the car would be printed with NIO's livery; now that NIO uses diesel generators, it no longer wants to use any NIO-related colors and logos on the car, trying to distance itself from burning diesel.

Some students will ask, diesel engines are more fuel-efficient. Even a large diesel SUV such as the Isuzu MU-X only consumes 7 to 8 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers. Why does a diesel generator need a giant fuel tank of 100 liters? After research and consultation, it is learned that the generator of the electric vehicle needs to continue to operate at high load and high power during charging, so the fuel consumption is extremely high. It consumes about 25 liters of diesel per hour, and the fuel consumption in one hour is enough for three diesel off-road vehicles to travel 100 kilometers each. Adding the fuel consumption of the diesel Iveco itself, it is calculated that NIO consumes 35 to 40 liters of diesel for every 100 kilometers!

What can 40 liters of diesel do?

Five 3.0T diesel 4WD SUVs (Ranger) travel 100 kilometers at high speed, which adds up to 40 liters of diesel.

A heavy-duty commercial vehicle transport truck carrying 10 NIO ES8s can travel 100 kilometers without using more than 40 liters of diesel.

But now, a Weilai ES8 needs to consume 40 liters of diesel to travel 100 kilometers! In addition, two staff members are required to accompany the whole journey, and every 150 kilometers or so, they have to stop for an hour and a half to charge.

Each of us was overwhelmed with doubts: What a Fit can easily do, NIO needs a modified diesel generator and two NIO employees to protect it day and night, spend several hours every day charging, consume more than 200 liters of diesel a day, and wear down jackets and cotton hats to barely achieve. What is the meaning of this kind of waste?

Please ask Li Bin to come out and walk for a while. Are you more convenient or more environmentally friendly? As a US-listed electric car company that focuses on environmental protection, do Americans know that your electric cars consume 40 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers? All the bragging of electric cars ultimately depends on fossil fuels to achieve.

Weilai's electric car is useless

I recalled what Li Bin said, "It is safe to say that 80% of NIO users find it more convenient to charge their cars than to refuel them," and Kai-Fu Lee said, "Buying a car is the worst investment, because private cars are not driven 96% of the time." I guess Internet thinking may be like this, saying some mindless nonsense, pretending to be very reasonable.

I've seen this kind of substitution too many times. Men don't 100% use their nipples. Will you help us subvert this someday? Or maybe the average person on earth only has one testicle, but you have two. Obviously, you have more than the average number of testicles, so maybe you should give one of them up for sharing.

In just half a year since NIO delivered its cars, its image has shrunk from "Chinese Tesla" and "electric savior" to a street rat. It is inconvenient, environmentally friendly, and not smart, leaving only a laughing stock. I knew NIO was going to do something weird during this trip to Northeast China, but I didn't expect it to be so weird: what a car worth tens of thousands of yuan can easily do, a NIO worth hundreds of thousands of yuan needs to consume a huge amount of diesel, bring an extra service car to follow, and need to take two employees to accompany it to barely complete it. I can't think of a more appropriate adjective except magical.

NIO is like a lying child. After telling a lie at the beginning, it has to use more lies to cover up the first lie, which is getting more and more absurd and outrageous, but there is no turning back. "It is more convenient to recharge than to refuel", "NIO can go wherever gasoline cars can go", "I don't want to drive any other car after driving NIO" These words are not said by me, but by NIO itself. Pure electric is the wrong technical route. NIO is the one that brags the most among all pure electric vehicles. Unfortunately, if bragging can lead to success, President Jia would have succeeded long ago, and it would not be Li Bin's turn. From NIO's farce, I can't see any sign of efficiency and making money, only inefficiency, waste and madness. How long can NIO survive?

After consuming 1,200 liters of diesel, we returned to Beijing. As expected, the familiar summary message appeared on the phone of the NIO owner: "You have contributed xxxx grams of carbon reduction to the blue sky."

What a great carbon emission reduction! A carbon emission reduction of 40 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.