The Ora Cat meanwhile is 4235 mm long. It was given a rounded retro styling in a bid to increase appeal to a younger, urban buyer.
The range of the Cat extends up to 400 km depending on the battery size, according to Great Wall. The 169-hp electric motor gives a 0-100 kph time of 8.5 seconds, Great Wall said.
The technology features of the car includes face recognition, which is also used to detect whether the driver is distracted.
Great Wall claims the car is first in the sector to include a suite advanced sensors, includes what it describes as 5-mm wave radar, to increase the levels of driving assistance.
The Cat has an automated parking feature that is helped by the car recording the last 50 meter of its route, allowing it to reverse into tight spots.
The starting price for the Cat will be about 30,000 euros, Gerald Krainer, who is Great Wall Europe’s head of sales and service, told ANE.
Both the Wey Coffee 01 and the Ora Cat can be preordered starting in late 2021 with deliveries starting in the first half of 2022, Great Wall said.
Great Wall has a 50-50 partnership with BMW in China and the two automakers are building a plant to build combustion-engine and electric variants of BMW’s Mini brand and Great Wall cars.
Qiang reconfirmed the goal set by Great Wall Chairman Wei Jianjun, who said at the 2019 IAA in Frankfurt that the company would consider building a plant in Europe once again if its sales hit 50,000 units a year.
“Production [in Europe] is in our future,” Qiang said, “and we will do it.”
Douglas A. Bolduc contributed