NIO so far deploys over 1,100 battery swap stations

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- NIO announced on Sept. 10 it had so far deployed 1,103 battery swap stations across China, of which the significant 1,100th one was launched on the same day.

Aside from the battery swapping facility, NIO's power replenishment network in China has also encompassed 1,004 supercharging stations, 5,367 superchargers, 877 destination charging stations, and 5,470 destination charging piles. Besides, it has also had access to over 570,000 third-party charging piles.

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As of Sept. 10, 2022, NIO's users have conducted more than 12 million battery swaps cumulatively, said the startup. Currently, more than 30,000 battery swaps can be fulfilled at NIO Power Swap stations per day. 

Up until now, around 64.13% NIO users have lived in the “Swap Station District Houses”, which refer to residences within a 3 km radius from a NIO battery swap station. The percentage is expected to be raised to over 90% by 2025.

Of the battery swap stations deployed so far, a total of 292 stations are located along expressways.

NIO aims to fulfill the deployment of a “nine vertical + nine horizontal expressways + 19 city clusters” inter-city expressway battery swapping network in China by 2025.

The EV manufacturer expects its total number of battery swap stations to exceed 1,300 by 2022 in China, and reach 4,000 worldwide by 2025.