NIO’s 2,800th battery swapping station in China goes live

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On December 16, NIO officially announced the launch of its 2,800th battery swapping station in China, and also stated that its users have conducted over 60 million battery swaps to date.

Having completed the 2,700th station on November 25, NIO increased its battery swapping network by another 100 stations within a month.

At the 2024 Chengdu Motor Show earlier this year, NIO's Co-founder and President Mr. Lihong Qin introduced the 318 Sichuan-Xizang battery swapping route spanning 2,800 kilometers, along which NIO plans to establish 14 battery swapping stations. To date, with five already operational, the company aims to build nine additional stations, completing the Sichuan segment by the end of this year and the Xizang 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 electric vehicle charging and battery swapping networks in China. NIO plans that by June 30, 2025, NIO's battery swapping stations will be built in over 1,200 counties of 14 provincial-level administrative divisions including major regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Macao, and provinces like Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Anhui, and Fujian.

By the end of 2025, NIO battery swapping station network will be available in 27 provincial-level administrative divisions, reaching over 2,300 counties. Starting 2026, NIO will expand coverage in the remaining provincial-level administrative divisions.

As of December 16, NIO has built a total of 2,802 battery swapping stations and deployed 4,175 charging stations with 24,555 charging piles across China.

In addition to building its own energy supply network, NIO has ramped up collaboration with automakers to enhance charging and battery swapping network 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.