The Hongqi Tiangong 08 is a 5-door SUV from Hongqi, built from 2024, in the decade the industry is turning electric.
The story
The Hongqi Tiangong 08 (Chinese: 红旗天工08) or Hongqi EHS7 is a battery electric mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by Chinese automobile manufacturer Hongqi, a subsidiary of FAW Group.
What is underneath
253-455 kW is the published figure. It weighs 2320-2770 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 109 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. The wheelbase is 3000 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Changchun, Jilin, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Z, the Geely Galaxy E5, the Hyundai Ioniq 9 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Hongqi catalogue sit the Hongqi and the Hongqi 774.