During the brand launch conference, Zhang Xingyan, President of Seres Automotive’s Overseas Business Unit, signed a contract with Brazilian customer representatives, marking the brand’s full entry into the Brazilian market, South America’s largest economy. At the same time, the SERES brand’s global strategic model SERES 5, positioned as a “high-end sports luxury electric SUV”, has fully entered the Brazilian market.

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José Augusto Brandimarti, Chief Operating Officer of Seres Brand Brazil, said that this agreement demonstrates Seres confidence in the South American market and opens up broad prospects for the brand’s future development. Currently, Thalys’ new headquarters in Brazil has begun trial operation, and its showroom in Sao Paulo, Brazil has opened services and provides product test drives.

Judging from the official pictures, while SERES 5 was officially announced to enter the Brazilian market, SERES 7, which corresponds to the domestic M7, was also unveiled at the event. The appearance of the car is expected to be consistent with the domestic version, and it will have the AITO brand LOGO hanging on it.

It was previously reported that the September production and sales report data released by Thalys Group earlier this month showed that the brand achieved production of 17,270 vehicles that month, a year-on-year decrease of 41.11%, and sales of 17,952 vehicles, a year-on-year decrease of 37.93%.

The production and sales of new energy vehicles (including but not limited to AITO ) were 9,062 and 10,246 respectively, a year-on-year decrease of 51.68% and 41.77%. Among them, the production and sales of Seres cars were 6,101 and 7,125 units, a year-on-year decrease of 45.74% and 29.75%.

For comparison, Thalys’s new energy vehicle production and sales in August were 5,711 and 6,243 units respectively.

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The officially obtained, SERES 5 is equipped with a front AC asynchronous motor + rear permanent magnet synchronous motor, 4WD combination of the total power of 430kW, 100 km acceleration of 3.7 seconds; chassis large area of aluminum alloy, equipped with front double-wishbone + rear multi-link independent suspension, improve driving stability.

SERES 5 has two models: pure electric and extended-range. The pure electric 2WD version has a working range of 500km at WLTP and the 4WD flagship version has a working range of 530km at WLTP. The range-extended version has a combined range of 1000+km on full fuel and full power.

It is worth mentioning that SERES 5 was first presented at the Brussels Motor Show in Belgium on January 13, and completed the contract with more than 20 dealers from Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and other regions, with orders of more than 20,000 units.

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Seres said that the new model SERES 5 launched this time is the first new energy vehicle released overseas by Chinese car companies in 2023. The release of this car is also another important measure for the strategic globalization of Seres’ new energy vehicles.

According to reports, through continuous technical investment, Seres has formed high-performance pure electric drive technology and intelligent range-extending electric drive technology and launched smart electric vehicles and three electric products. After five years of research and development, design and verification, Seres Lisi officially launched the SERES 5 new energy model in Europe. More than 20 dealers from Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and other regions signed contracts with Seres on the spot.

Arnaud Bassil, Chief Product Engineer of CATL, said that CATL will continue to cooperate with Seres to push flagship models equipped with cutting-edge intelligence and new energy technologies to the European market.

According to data of Seres, as of 2022, Seres has exported nearly 500,000 cars to more than 70 export markets.

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