The nearly 3,000 Nio battery swap stations around the world currently perform around 80,000 battery swaps daily.
Nio officially announced on December 13th that its battery swap stations have recently surpassed 60 million swaps. The Chinese EV manufacturer claims that its swap stations currently average approximately 80,000 swaps per day since the beginning of December, with this in turn translating to a car undergoing a battery swap at a Nio swap station every 1.08 seconds!
There are currently has 2,785 Nio swap stations in its home market of China, with 909 of them located along highways. The Chinese automaker however also incidentally operates swap stations in Europe, with 59 locations dotted around Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium.
The first 10 million battery swap milestone for Nio previously took place on July 2nd 2022, four years after the first battery swap took place in Shenzhen on May 20th 2018. Now the company has achieved 50 million more swaps in just two and half years, with the jump from its 50 millionth to the 60 millionth happening in just 5 months.
During its annual Nio Power event this past August, founder, chairman and CEO of Nio, Li Bin had announced the company’s aim to achieve battery swap coverage in an additional 1,200 county-level districts by June 2025. In addition to the 2,785 swap stations, the automaker currently operates 4,618 charging stations and 24,520 charging piles worldwide.
This surge in battery swaps can be attributed to sales of Nio’s Onvo L60. An interesting curio regarding this debut model for its new sub-brand is that it has the optional extra of a 52-litre Midea fridge that fits under its boot floor, but perhaps more pertinent to buyers is that this all-electric sedan-crossover is currently priced in China from just 149,900 yuan (RM 90,000) for the battery as a service (BaaS) subscription variant.
Curiously though, not all Nio battery swap stations are compatible with Onvo sub-brand. The automaker nevertheless has stated that it is currently hard at work increasing the count of Onvo-compatible swaps stations from its current total of 644, with there supposedly to be 2,500 Onvo and Nio compatible swap stations by the end of 2025.
In other Nio news too, the Chinese automaker has also ramped up its expansion efforts in the United Arab Emirates. The company opened its first flagship center in Abu Dhabi in November and is expected to have its first swap station in the country by 2025. Nio is notably backed by CYVN Holdings, a growth investment fund owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi.
