ORA Cars

China Great Wall Motors GWM has officially introduced its new brand dedicated exclusively to new energy vehicles ORA is the fourth brand under the carmakers roof after Great Wall Haval and WEY and will aim their EVs at young audiences with the first model due this year. Great Wall label ORA, or Ola in Chinese, had been announced some weeks ago but has now revealed details at the official launch at the Beijing Motor Show. Their first electric cars are both planned out already. The ORA iQ5 is a sedan with a said range of 350 km and a motor output of 60hp, good for a 150kph max. Next one up in 2019 is the ORA R1, a more compact EV with a rather urban range of 300 km. The two models stand for two lines ORA is to introduce, the iQ line with electric cars of regular size, and the R line with small city cars. They will be sold through a separate dealer network