The Great Wall Motors Ora Good Cat is showing to be extremely popular in Thailand, where the totally electrical hatchback is presently the very popular electrical car in the nation; at the EV’s Thailand launch in June this year, all 500 systems of the preliminary pre-order batch were reserved within 58 minutes of opening, Great Wall Motors has actually stated in a declaration.
Subsequent to its strong preliminary need at the Thailand launch, the Ora Good Cat has actually collected more than 5,500 orders by the end of October 2022 throughout all variations, and as an outcome has actually ended up being the very popular electrical car in Thailand, according to Great Wall Motors.
The Chinese carmaker revealed its entry into the Malaysian market in July this year, and the business had actually currently begun taking pre-bookings for the electrical hatchback at that point. The Great Cat has actually tentatively been set for its Malaysian launch at some point this month, and it will be offered in our market in 4 variations; Tech, Pro, Ultra and Ultra G.
Starting with the Tech and Pro variations, these 2 variations of the Ora Good Cat load a 47.8 kWh lithium-ion phosphate battery that provides to 400 km of variety on the older NEDC screening cycle (the existing WLTP procedure will typically yield a 20% lower figure; discussed in our evaluation here), and this will take 8 hours to get a complete charge from a 6.6 kW air conditioner outlet through a Type 2 connection. On the other hand, DC quickly charging will take 46 minutes to go from 0-80% state of charge.
Even More up the Great Cat variety, the Ultra and Ultra G variations get a 63.1 kWh ternary lithium battery that provide to 500 km of variety on the NEDC test cycle, and this spec will take around 10 hours for a complete charge from an a/c outlet. With DC quickly charging, a 0-80% state of charge can be reached in 40 minutes.
Active security package in the Ora Good Cat consists of functions such as adaptive cruise control with smart turning, traffic congestion help, automated emergency situation braking with crossway assistance, front crash caution, a knowledge evade system, lane departure caution, lane keeping help and lane centre keeping.
The higher-spec Ultra and Ultra G variations include more security package such as automated parking, emergency situation lane keeping, lane modification assistant, blind area detection, rear crash caution, rear cross-traffic alert and braking, plus front parking sensing units; more on the upcoming Malaysian-market spec here, and have a look at our video evaluation of the Ora Good Cat here.
GALLERY: Great Wall Ora Good Cat in Malaysia
