Nio built its first battery swap station on May 20, 2018 and saw its 1,000th battery swap station go live on July 6, 2022.
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Nio (NYSE: NIO) has reached 2,000 battery swap stations in China, moving toward its goal of completing 2,300 stations by the end of this year.
The electric vehicle (EV) company today put a new battery swap station into operation in China, the 2,000th at the Baoji West service area on the G30 Lianyungang-Khorgos highway, which is known as an extension of the old Silk Road in China.
Along this route, the Nio Power network supports users in battery swapping from Lianyungang on China’s eastern coast all the way to Tianshui in the western province of Gansu, the company said.
Nio aims to see its number of battery swap stations in China reach 2,300 by the end of this year, with 1,000 of them added this year.
The company completed its first battery swap station in Shenzhen on May 20, 2018, and saw its 1,000th battery swap station go live on July 6, 2022.
As of today, 77.1 percent of Nio owners can find at least one battery swap station within 3 kilometers of their homes, and Nio has accumulated 30.92 million battery swap services.
In major cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen, more than 90 percent of local Nio users have at least one battery swap station within 3 kilometers of where they live, Nio said today.
“We are proud to see that Nio has performed nearly 31 million power swap operations for users or nearly 60,000 operations per day on average, which means that every 1.4 seconds, a car departs from a Power Swap Station with its battery fully charged,” said Shen Fei, senior vice president of Nio Power.
“Nio will keep building Power Swap Stations to make recharging beyond refueling. With our rechargeable, swappable, and upgradable power system, we support users to travel in smart EVs without worrying about the distances to their destinations,” Shen added.
In addition to the 2,000 battery swap stations, Nio has 1,867 supercharging stations in China providing 8,868 superchargers and 1,415 destination charging stations providing 10,234 chargers.
Nio’s charging map in China accesses 945,167 third-party charging piles.
Nio is in the process of bringing its full suite of services in China to Europe, including the iconic battery swap stations.
In Europe, Nio currently has 27 battery swap stations, 11 charging stations and access to over 500,000 third-party chargers.
