Nio says its battery-swap network has completed more than 130 million swaps. It reached the milestone at 6:53:21 p.m. Beijing time on Nov. 3, 88 days after passing 120 million on Aug. 7.
The network
- Daily swaps averaged more than 110,000 over those 88 days. On average, a Nio, Onvo or Firefly car left a swap station every 0.77 seconds.
- Nio has 4,236 swap stations in China, up 230 from 4,006 on Aug. 7, CnEVPost reports.
- It also has 5,556 charging stations with 32,261 charging piles, for a combined 9,792 charging and swap stations.
- CnEVPost reports that 84.5% of users now have a swap station within 3 km of home or work, up from 80.1% in August.
- CnEVPost says 1,077 highway swap stations connect 550 cities.
Context
Netcom notes that Nio passed 100 million swaps on Feb. 6. On Aug. 7, the day of the 120 millionth swap, Nio's 4,000th swap station and its first fifth-generation station opened at the Quanzhou Overseas Chinese Sports Stadium in Fujian. The first fifth-generation stations went into service that day in seven cities. Netcom adds that Nio has now connected 92 scenic «power-up routes» and plans 100 in total.