At the end of 2022, Nio had 26,763 full-time employees, higher than Li Auto's 19,396 and Xpeng's 15,829.
CnEVPost gets questions from readers every day, and one of the latest is, how many employees does Nio (NYSE: NIO) have?
This article aims to answer that question and compare the number of employees at Nio, Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV), and Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI), as well as the percentage of their employees in different functions.
As of December 31, 2022, Nio had 26,763 full-time employees, according to its 2022 annual report.
Nio has the largest number of employees in the electric vehicle (EV) trio in China. As of December 31, 2022, Li Auto and Xpeng had 19,396 and 15,829 employees, respectively, according to their 2022 annual reports.
In fact, Nio also has the most employees of the three companies in 2020 and 2021.
That's not hard to understand; Nio is known for giving good service to car owners in China, and it has the largest business coverage of the three companies, including sub-brands, and new businesses like cell phones, and chips.
Nio's user experience workforce numbered 11,983 at the end of last year, accounting for 44.8 percent of the total.
These user experience employees are responsible for sales, marketing and service, according to Nio's 2022 annual report.
Nio's product and software development employee count was 10,025 at the end of last year, or 37.5 percent of the total workforce.
Its manufacturing function had 2,800 employees at the end of last year, or 10.5 percent.
Nio's general administration employees were 1,955, or 7.3 percent, at the end of last year.
Xpeng's workforce totaled 15,829 at the end of last year, the smallest of the three. Notably, Xpeng has more employees than Li Auto in both 2020 and 2021.
Xpeng has almost the same number of employees in sales and marketing, and research and development, with 6,316 and 6,313 respectively as of the end of last year, both at 39.9 percent of all employees.
Xpeng's manufacturing employees numbered 2,647, or 2.9 percent of all employees. Its general and administration employees numbered 87, or just 0.5 percent of the total.
Li Auto had 19,396 employees at the end of last year, with sales and marketing employees numbering 9,199, or 47.4 percent of all employees.
Li Auto has the fewest R&D employees of the three companies with 4,838 or 24.9 percent of all employees.
Li Auto has the largest production workforce of the three companies with 4,318 employees or 22.3 percent of the total as of the end of 2022.
It has 1,041 general and administrative support employees, or 5.4 percent.
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