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>scheduled to be launched in 2022 in China >it's worth pointing out that Nio calculates range based on the Chinese NEDC system

I'm pretty skeptical that a brand new company would beat tesla on range so easily. I hope it does.

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It’s battery is 50% bigger than a model S. 150 kWh vs 100 kWh. Not really a 50% range gain like you are thinking. Just like you could build a 2 inch phone with a really long battery life, so can you cram a ton of batteries in a car. This should mean it is heavier than a model S (which is already 5k pounds) which has other implications.

They're a newish company but not brand new. In my visit to china in 2019 I occasionally saw their SUV's in major cities and even visited a dealership. They've had several models in production prior to this car that have been well received and to me were quite impressive.

Nio makes a supercar, the EP9 which while impractical because it requires a team of technicians to operate and has a rather large price tag (2.5M GBP), it seems to be quite an impressive vehicle (see The Grand Tour's episode on it [0]).

I wonder how much of that engineering has translated into the ET7.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilEG53Cl3LE

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