NIO's 2,700th power swap station in China goes live

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On November 25, NIO announced the completion of its 2,700th battery swap station in China, and also stated that its users have conducted over over 58 million battery swaps to date.

At the 2024 Chengdu Motor Show earlier this year, NIO's Co-founder and President Mr. Lihong Qin announced the launch of the 318 Tibet-Sichuan battery swap route, a 2,800-kilometer journey along which NIO plans to establish 14 battery swap stations.With five already operational, the company aims to build nine additional stations, completing the Sichuan segment by the end of this year and the Tibet segment ahead of next year's Chengdu Motor Show.

Additionally, at the Power Up 2024 event in August this year, NIO announced the planning on "Power Up Counties", which consists of the county-level charging network and the county-level battery swapping network in China. With the plan, NIO is to expand its charging network, installing chargers in all counties in China. Moreover, NIO will carry out the plan to expand battery swapping network carried out in three phases: By June 30, 2025, NIO Power Swap Station (PSS) will be built in over 1,200 counties of 14 provincial-level administrative divisions; by December 31, 2025, the PSS network will be available in counties of another 13 provincial-level administrative divisions. By then, NIO PSS will have covered over 2,300 counties of 27 provincial-level administrative divisions. Starting 2026, NIO will expand coverage in the remaining provincial-level administrative divisions. NIO's charging and swapping network is expected to be enhanced and expanded with the release of "Power Up Counties", offering convenient, efficient and reassuring experiences for NIO, ONVO and other NEV users. 

As of November 25, 2024, NIO has built a total of 2,702 PSSs, 895 of which are located along highways, and also deployed 4,125 charging locations with 24,242 charging piles across China.

In addition to building its own energy supply network, NIO has continued to form partnerships with other automakers to enhance charging and battery swap connectivity. Brands such as AVATR, Chery, MHERO, HIMA (Huawei's smart car alliance), Hongqi, DEEPAL, AION, IM Motors, ZEEKR, Lotus Cars, Cadillac, Buick, and XPENG now share charging interoperability with NIO's charging facilities.