Recently, an official website channel stated that NIUTRON will be officially released on December 15th. The brand is the new venture of Li Yinan, the founder of Niu Technologies (NASDAQ: NIU).
It is reported that the NIUTRON car-building project was established in November 2018. The brand headquarters is located in Beijing, the R&D center is located in Shanghai, and the R&D and intelligent manufacturing base is located in Changzhou. At present, the company’s core R&D team is close to 1,000 people, all of whom are from mainstream first-tier automobile companies in China and abroad, with an average working life of more than 10 years and extremely rich experience.
Previously, a rendering of the an electric vehicle from NIUTRON was circulated on the Internet and named NIU 4 Fun. The car is positioned as a four-seater small pure electric vehicle with a wheelbase of 2010 mm and a battery life of about 400 kilometers. Judging from the renderings given, the EV is extremely compact and has a sense of technology.
It is reported that NIUTRON will operate separately and independently from Niu Technologies, which also means Niu Technologies will enter the field of new energy vehicles with a new brand.