Dongfeng Motor is going to launch a new EV brand in China. It will be called Junfeng and officially launch on the Shanghai Auto Show. The logo is a reworked
Dongfeng badge with a blue dot in the middle. Junfeng will start with two cars.
The first one is called the ER30.
The ER30 is based on none other than the 2010 Nissan March, which is still in production in
China at the Dongfeng-Nissan joint venture. Dongfeng
changed the front and back and added a trendy black rear door. The ER30 will be
powered by an electric motor with an output of 80 hp, good enough for a 115 km/h
top speed. Dimension size is 3775/1665/1530 mm, and wheelbase is 2450 mm.
The second car is called E17. This is likely a
factory-code name. The E17 is based on the pre-facelifted Dongfeng-Fengshen
A60. Interestingly, in 2015 we saw a very
similar EV, then called the Fengshen A60 EV, but it never made it
to the market. The Fengshen A60 EV has now been turned into the Junfeng E17.
The E17 will be powered by an electric motor with an
output of 135 hp, good enough for a 125 km/h top speed. Dimension size is 4680/1720/1545 mm,
and wheelbase is 2700 mm.
It is hard to see why Dongfeng would see the need to
start yet another brand. They already have so many. They could sell EVs under
any of their exiting names. A new brand seems time and money wasted. It is also
hard to see anybody buying these cars. They are both based on very old
platforms and they don’t have that much power.
Dongfeng knows all that of course, and we therefore
doubt that Junfeng is a real brand. In all appearances this thing seems more of
a keep-the-government-happy-and-catch-some-subsidy scheme than a serious
effort.
Cr : Carnewschina
