Evidently NIO has been rolling out huge information faster and faster. It simply retains hitting new large milestones and innovating on its distinctive expertise. Prior to now few weeks, it has reached 10 billion kilometers pushed throughout its buyer automobile fleet, and it has surpassed 20 million battery swaps. Extra beautiful stats and information of technological progress are beneath.

NIO Battery Swap Community Covers Beijing-Taipei Freeway

NIO’s intensive battery swapping community in China retains rising and rising, together with preliminary protection of the Beijing-Taipei freeway going from northern to southern China. “On April 23, NIO’s battery swap station community accomplished preliminary protection of the G3 Beijing-Taipei freeway with 21 battery swap stations alongside the route,” CnEVPost writes. “By now, NIO has accomplished protection of 5 main highways connecting to Beijing, the opposite 4 being the G1 Beijing-Harbin freeway, the G2 Beijing-Shanghai freeway, the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau freeway and the G5 Beijing-Kunming freeway.”

NIO — 10 Billion Kilometers of Driving

NIO autos have pushed 10 billion kilometers, based on the corporate. NIO provides that 60% of its drivers have used battery swapping stations. The corporate now has 1,383 battery swapping stations throughout China and Europe. The Chinese language EV startup has grown quick, and so has its battery swapping community.

“NIO customers achieved the ten billion kilometer distance landmark in 1,762 days for the reason that model’s launch. Underlining its progress in latest months, it had taken lower than 28 months from launch for NIO to succeed in the primary billion kilometers when there have been simply 150 Energy Swap Stations. Only a additional 31 months on from that first achievement, it has added one other 9 billion kilometers.”

Massive Battery Swapping Stats, And Larger Plans

Earlier in April, earlier than the ten billion kilometer milestone, NIO carried out its 20 millionth battery swap. Spectacular. A NIO battery swap takes place each 1.6 seconds for the time being. And the expertise is just getting higher. “NIO’s Third Technology Energy Swap Station, able to 408 swaps per day, up 30 per cent on right this moment’s capability, entered service this month.” A battery swap already took lower than 5 minutes, akin to filling up a fuel tank — however cleaner and fewer smelly.

Whereas 1,383 battery swap stations could sound like rather a lot, the corporate intends so as to add 1,000 extra in China and 70 extra in Europe simply by the top of this yr, 2023!

This battery swapping functionality gives NIO with an enormous alternative not afforded to different EV firms — the flexibility to simply, conveniently, and convincingly decouple costly batteries from electrical automobiles. “Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) uncouples the associated fee, upkeep, and upgradability of batteries from the automobile value, making EV possession extra interesting. In markets similar to Norway, roughly 95 p.c of customers opted for BaaS.” Wowza! Norway, probably the most superior and most mature EV market on the planet, is at all times a helpful place to see what the EV future could maintain. The truth that 95% of NIO consumers there are selecting the BaaS possibility reveals us one thing. It doesn’t essentially imply that the market might be dominated by battery swapping in time, nevertheless it does present a starvation for this selection and that there’s a gap within the EV marketplace for … nicely … for NIO, because it’s the one firm doing this.

Extra NIO Stats

There at the moment are greater than 320,000 NIO autos on the highway. The corporate says that it “continues to progress from nascent producer to established OEM on sale in six nations and set to be out there in as much as 25 nations by 2025.”

Let’s shut with another milestone. Inside these 10 billion general kilometers drive, the corporate signifies than multiple billion kilometers had been pushed utilizing NIO’s driver-assist options, “similar to NIO Navigate On Pilot, which fuses navigation, HD maps, and NIO Pilot.”

NIO is at the moment promoting its autos in 6 nations — China, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. With 2025 only a yr and a half away, one has to marvel which 19 nations the corporate plans so as to add to its worldwide community. Presumably, they’re largely European nations, however maybe additionally the USA, Australia, and Canada?

It was lower than 5 years in the past that NIO began promoting its ES8 in China. How far the corporate has are available in such a short while! It’s onerous to think about how a lot greater its on-the-road automobile fleet and battery swapping community might be in one other 5 years, or by 2030. We’ll certainly be monitoring it!