Dongfeng Motors Showcases Electrical Car Lineup at SIEW 2025

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Dongfeng Motors offered its electrical car choices on the Singapore Worldwide Vitality Week (SIEW) 2025 final week, with its distributor Volt Auto serving because the occasion’s Official Automotive Sponsor. The Chinese language automaker’s presence on the energy-focused convention marked its continued enlargement in Singapore’s rising EV market.

Singapore’s electrical car market has grown in response to authorities coverage, notably the Singapore Inexperienced Plan 2030, which mandates that every one new automobile registrations be cleaner-energy fashions from 2030 onward. The coverage shift has accelerated client curiosity in electrical automobiles. Although, adoption charges stay topic to numerous regular elements, together with car pricing, charging infrastructure availability, and vary capabilities.

Dongfeng entered the Singapore market in This autumn 2024 starting with the launch of the Dongfeng Field electrical hatchback.

Dongfeng Vigo

The Dongfeng Vigo is a totally electrical crossover SUV, recognized in different markets because the Nammi 06. It’s a compelling combine of fashion, practicality, and know-how.

From a design standpoint, the Vigo is powerful and trendy, that includes a particular look that integrates sharp LED lighting and a purposeful stance. Extra than simply aesthetics, its practicality was instantly evident. The Vigo is supplied with a singular, segment-first “Heaven and Earth” dual-section tailgate (a cut up tailgate much like these seen on some premium European SUVs), which permits for straightforward loading and unloading in tight metropolis areas — a intelligent characteristic that genuinely impressed onlookers.

Powering the mass-market contender is a motor placing out round 120 kW (161 bhp), paired with battery choices as much as roughly 52 kWh, translating to a aggressive CLTC* vary of over 470 km. The cabin additional underscored its household focus, that includes an clever cockpit with a big 12.8-inch central display, snug seating (together with heated and ventilated driver’s seats in greater trims), and a set of superior security options, together with Stage 2 ADAS, making it a compelling, well-equipped challenger within the high-volume crossover section.

Dongfeng 007

The Dongfeng 007, an electrical liftback sedan unveiled roughly one week earlier than SIEW 2025, was additionally on show. The car options performance-oriented specs and a claimed vary of 600 to as much as 1,200 kilometers based mostly on China’s CLTC testing cycle.

Often known as the Dongfeng eπ 007, it’s the model’s premium, performance-focused electrical liftback sedan, positioned to compete within the medium-to-large section. It’s constructed on the superior Quantum structure platform and notably contains a dual-motor AWD (All-Wheel Drive) efficiency variant able to accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in simply 3.9 seconds, because of its 400 kW (540 hp) output.

This mannequin boasts an especially low drag coefficient of 0.209 Cd and is supplied with a big battery offering a most CLTC vary of roughly 540 km for the efficiency model, alongside the choice of a single-motor RWD (Rear-Wheel Drive) variant providing as much as 620 km of vary, and even an EREV (Vary-Prolonged Electrical Car) possibility for a complete vary of 1,200 km.

Past its spectacular efficiency, the 007 is full of clever know-how and distinctive design parts. The inside options an SOA Clever Cockpit powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, highlighted by a 15.6-inch central management display and a singular, flippable 8.8-inch digital instrument panel. Externally, the automobile showcases an aerodynamic profile with frameless doorways and an lively electrical rear spoiler. Moreover, the car incorporates superior driver-assistance methods (ADAS) enabling L2+ autonomous driving capabilities, solidifying its standing as a technologically refined and extremely performance-capable providing within the aggressive EV market.

The 007 represents Dongfeng’s entry into the premium efficiency EV section, the place it competes with established electrical sedans from each conventional automakers and EV-focused producers.

Charging Infrastructure

Volt Auto has established a partnership with Cost+, which operates Singapore’s largest EV charging community. Beneath this association, new Dongfeng Field purchasers obtain three years of charging credit totaling as much as 6,000 kWh throughout Cost+’s community in Singapore and Malaysia.

Cost+ is growing a regional charging community that features a deliberate 5,000-kilometer EV charging hall connecting Singapore to Hanoi. The supply of charging infrastructure stays a key consideration for EV adoption within the area. Volt Auto handles distribution, gross sales, and after-sales service for Dongfeng automobiles in Singapore. The corporate’s operations embrace retail areas and repair facilities to assist the model’s market entry.

*Word: That is all the time an enormous dispute within the EV area, simply as EPA rankings as soon as clashed with producers’ testing. The CLTC rankings sometimes exceed real-world driving ranges; precise vary varies based mostly on driving circumstances, local weather management use, and different elements.