Nio group noticed 136,748 battery swaps in a single day on February 3 as folks returned house from Chinese language New Yr celebrations. Of those, 8,000 have been attributed to Onvo, a brand new milestone for the sub-brand, the corporate introduced on WeChat.
Onvo homeowners have free limitless entry to battery-swapping alongside highways between January 22 and February 12, overlaying the excessive season round Chinese language New Yr. Nio homeowners can’t get pleasure from this promotion and have to pay for battery swap as ordinary.
Not all Nio stations are suitable with Onvo, as some want adjustment. Final week, Nio up to date 49 Nio stations to assist Onvo, bringing the overall variety of Onvo-compatible stations to 1,291. Which means that 40% of all Nio stations in China assist Onvo automobiles.
On February 3, the document day, the Nio group noticed a median of 5,698 swaps per hour. The EV startup at present operates 3,106 battery swap stations in China, which means every station did a median of 44 swaps. Furthermore, Nio will probably hit 65 million cumulative swaps later at the moment.
The information are from China solely and don’t embrace the influence of 59 battery swap stations Nio operates in Europe.
Nio offered over 100,000 battery swaps daily since January 23, with January 28 and 29 being the exception, with 90,843 and 96,650 swaps, respectively.
Nio group bought 13,863 automobiles in January, up 37.9% from final yr, making it its finest January in historical past. Nevertheless, at a more in-depth look, the premium Nio model bought solely 7,951 automobiles, down 21% from final yr.
Entry-level Onvo bought 5,912 models of its solely automobile, the L60 SUV, down 44% from 10,528 models in December. Onvo launched in September, and its president, Alan Ai, beforehand introduced that he would resign if the corporate didn’t attain 10,000 deliveries in December.
