NIO so far deploys 1,200 battery swapping stations in China

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On Nov. 6, NIO put a new battery swapping station into operation in Suzhou city, Jiangsu province, signifying that the cumulative volume of the EV manufacturer's battery swapping facilities has amounted to 1,200 stations across China.

NIO is ambitious to deploy 1,300 battery swapping stations nationwide by the end of 2022, and 4,000 stations worldwide by 2025.

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Aside from the battery swapping facility, NIO's power replenishment network in China has also contained 1,101 supercharging stations, 5,747 superchargers, 948 destination charging stations, and 6,068 destination charging piles. Besides, it has also had access to over 590,000 third-party charging piles.

Up until now, NIO's users have conducted more than 14 million battery swaps cumulatively, said the startup. Currently, more than 30,000 battery swaps can be fulfilled at NIO Power Swap stations per day.

As of today, around 66.23% NIO users in China have lived in the "Swap Station District Houses", which refer to residences within a 3 km radius from a NIO battery swap station. The coverage is expected to be raised to over 90% by 2025.

Of NIO's battery swapping stations so far deployed in the country, 324 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.