Chinese EV manufacturer Voyah has added its next production car to the Ministry of Industry database. It’s a CUV called Zhiyin, which means “best friend”, according to CarNewsChina. It will be released later this year and is poised to become the cheapest Voyah EV on the market.
The same car has previously been spotted
testing on public roads before with the provisional badge “H37”. It looks like
the final production version will ship with two front end designs to choose
between – one sporting a solid slab instead of the radiator grille and the
other one wearing a faux grill in black with some LED backlight. The rest of
the design elements, including the headlights, the bumpers, the hood with
vents, the roof hatch and the pull-out door handles, seem to be identical.
The spec sheet mentions that the CUV is
4,725 mm long, 1,900 mm wide and 1,636 mm tall with 2,900 mm between the axles. In China, it is set to ship in
two single-motor flavors – one rated at 292 PS and the other
one at 313 PS. Both will be bundled with an unspecified CATL
battery pack. There will also be a range-topping dual-motor spec with a 218-PS motor on either axle. It will be able to reach 204 km/h.
Rumors insist that the Voyah Zhiyin was
designed with some assistance from IT giant Huawei. It allegedly received the
company’s HarmonyOS for the infotainment system and an assist package known as
Qiankun. This remains to be confirmed, but the spy shots made earlier reveal a
large central display, a rather small instrument cluster, a squared-off
steering wheel and a wireless charging pad.
