Qiantu
K50 Event!
This
is the Qiantu K50 Event!, China’s first home-grown electric supercar, it
debuted earlier today on the Shanghai Auto Show. The Qiantu K50 Event! (with an
‘!’ at the end) will be launched on the Chinese car market in 2016, priced
around 700.000 yuan or 113.000 USD, which is about the same as the Tesla Model
S costs in China.
The
Qiantu K50 Event! is based on the CH Auto Event concept that debuted last year
on the Beijing Auto Show. Production was confirmed in October last year. The
company that will build the cars is called Qiantu Qiche (前途汽车),
which literally translates as ‘Future Auto’.
CH
Auto, a major Chinese automotive design & development company, is the largest
shareholder of Qiantu Qiche. Qiantu has three cars on show: this racy variant
with a shipload of extra wings and two standard cars that look pretty much like
last year’s concept. The Qiantu K50 Event! is powered by an electric motor with
an output of 400 hp and 650 nm, sending power to the rear wheels.
Claimed
specifications: top speed of 200 kilometers per hour, 0-100 in 5 seconds.
Range 200 kilometer. Battery: 41.1 kWh lithium-ion. Charging takes six hours on
220V. Curb weight is 1685 kilo.
The
interior is very gray and very dark. The dash has, big surprise, analogue
gauges. There is an LCD in the center console but it is small and doesn’t seem
very useful.
