Zinoro (之诺) is a luxury automobile marque owned by BMW Brilliance which specialises in electric vehicles. It was launched in 2013.

History

In 2013,

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...

and Brilliance decided to create a new

electric car An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger car, passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric motor, electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a p ...

brand for the domestic Chinese market called Zinoro. The first vehicle of the branch to join the offer was the compact crossover Zinoro 1E developed as a twin version of the

BMW X1 The BMW X1 is a line of cars produced by German marque BMW since 2009. It is in the subcompact luxury crossover SUV, subcompact luxury crossover class, and the first-generation X1 was based on the BMW 3 Series (E90), E90 3 Series and offered rea ...

, differing from it to a moderate extent visually, and above all - instead of an internal combustion engine, a purely electric drive. Two years later, during the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show, Zinoro presented the Concept Next prototype, which was a study announcement of the successor of the 1E model, and the vehicle debuted in production form in June 2016. Unlike its predecessor, the Zinoro 60H is a combustion-electric car of the

plug-in hybrid A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) or simply plug-in hybrid is a type of hybrid electric vehicle equipped with a rechargeable battery pack that can be directly replenished via a charging cable plugged into an external electric power so ...

type. Like its predecessor, the car is a twin model of the next incarnation

. Zinoro cars were offered in parallel with the

sister products exclusively on the Chinese market.

Products

Zinoro 1E

Zinoro 1E (之诺1E) is all-electric crossover, based on the

BMW X1 (E84) The E84 BMW X1 is a subcompact crossover SUV/C-segment model was produced from 2009 to 2015. It is the first generation model of the BMW X1 range, and was replaced by the BMW X1 (F48), F48 BMW X1 in mid-2015. Development and launch Developmen ...

, was the first product of BMW Brilliance's new brand and the first

new energy vehicle A plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) is any road vehicle that can utilize an external source of electricity (such as a wall socket that connects to the power grid) via an detachable power cable to store electrical energy within its onboard recharg ...

(NEV) from a Chinese premium manufacturer. It was unveiled at the 2013 Guangzhou Auto Show. The Zinoro 1E had a rear-mounted 125 kW

electric motor An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a electromagnetic coil, wire winding to gene ...

and produced a peak torque of 250 N·m (184 lb-ft). The motor is powered by a

lithium iron phosphate battery The lithium iron phosphate battery ( battery) or LFP battery (''lithium ferrophosphate'') is a type of lithium-ion battery using lithium iron phosphate () as the cathode material, and a graphitic carbon electrode with a metallic backing as t ...

pack that can deliver an

all-electric range All-electric range (AER) is the maximum driving range of an electric vehicle using only power from its on-board battery pack to traverse a given driving cycle. In the case of a Battery electric vehicle (BEV), it means the maximum range per rech ...

of up to . Charging of the battery takes around 7.5 hours with a 16A wallbox. Top speed is electronically limited to . After early 2014 the Zinoro 1E was available for leasing only in

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

and

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

, and the company planned to open another showroom in

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. Leasing starts at 400 RMB per day (~) or 7,400 RMB per month (~). The annual contract was planned to include the wall box charger, car registration plate, insurance, maintenance, and repairs. The Zinoro 1E is eligible for a NEV plate in Beijing, which had a registration quota of 20,000 new energy vehicles for 2014. In Shanghai license plates are auctioned for the equivalent of just under . , electric cars received their license plate free of charge. File:Zinoro 1E.jpg, Zinoro 1E front File:Zinoro 1E rear.jpg, Zinoro 1E rear File:Zinoro 1E front.jpg, Zinoro 1E charging

Zinoro 60H

Zinoro 60H (之诺60H) is a

electric vehicle based on the second generation

Long Wheelbase and previewed by the Zinoro Concept Next, launched in 2016.Official Photos Of The Brilliance-BMW Zinoro 60H
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References

External links

*ZINORO pages
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{{Automotive industry in China BMW Brilliance Auto Electric vehicle manufacturers of China Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers Motor vehicle manufacturers of China Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2013