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Xilai has officially released a preview of its third production car, which will be unveiled at NIO Day in Shenzhen on December 28th. According to the news, the new car will be the ES6 Coupe version of Xilai.

ES8 announced the listing of NIO Day in December 2017 and delivery began in June 2018. The second production car, the ES6, was launched at NIO Day in December 2018 and delivered to users in June 2019. According to the next schedule, delivery of the ES6 Coupe version is expected to begin in mid-2020.

Data show that the number of units delivered by NIO in November 2019 was 2528, a new high in 2019, of which ES6 delivered 2067 units in November and ES8 accounted for 461 units.

According to the data from January to November 2019, the number of units delivered by Lulai reached 17395, ES6 delivered a total of 8896 units, and ES8 delivered a total of 8499 units throughout the year. It is worth noting that the cumulative delivery of ES8 has reached 20, 000 units as of December 12.

Since sales began in June 2018, a total of 28743 units have been delivered by NIO so far.

In terms of products, the seven-seat and six-seat versions of ES8 sell for 448000 and 456000 respectively, and the mileage of the NEDC can be increased to 425km with an optional 84-degree battery pack of RMB 50, 000. The price range of ES6 is 35.8-498000 yuan, and the mileage can reach 420km-510km according to configuration and selection. The dynamic parameters of the ES6 Coupe version are expected to be similar to those of ES6.

In 2019, the company started to lay off staff, and there were frequent changes in the internal and senior levels. According to Xilai, by the end of 2019, it will cut the number to 7500 to improve operational efficiency. In terms of internal and high-level changes, Zhuang Li, vice president of automotive software development at Lulai, left on June 30; Zheng Xiancong, co-founder of Lulai, left on August 15 and will continue to serve as Li Bin's personal adviser after retirement; Xie Dongzhong, chief financial officer of CFO, resigned from the company for personal reasons on October 28th, and NIO immediately hired China International Capital Corporation auto analyst Feng Wei as the new CFO.

According to the financial report data released by NIO, NIO realized operating income of 1.508 billion yuan in the second quarter of 2019, with a net loss of 3.285 billion yuan belonging to shareholders of listed companies. Li Bin confirmed that NIO has actually lost about 22 billion yuan so far.

In terms of share prices, NIO shares closed at $2.26 as of December 11, US Eastern time.

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