Phate Zhang

Cumulative deliveries of the Dolphin stood at 462,558 units at the end of August, with monthly deliveries exceeding 30,000 in each of the past six months.

The Dolphin is the fourth model BYD launched in Mexico after the Han, Tang, and Yuan Plus, with a starting price of around $31,250.

Nio president said media reports that the company sold 832 units in Europe in the first half of the year are inaccurate, and that the real results were three to four times that number.

Nio aims to boost NOP+ coverage to 200,000 kilometers of urban roads by the first quarter of 2024.

The App Store for Nio's vehicle cockpits will go live in the next few days, with more than 40 apps that have already been adapted to be available this month.

SkyOS is Nio's full-featured operating system, gradually realizing more functionality from the NT 1.0 platform to NT 2.0. The NT 3.0 platform will see the full-featured SkyOS.

The Yangjian chip will allow Nio to save about $100 per vehicle and recover its development costs in about a year, William Li said.

The Nio Phone is a phone built around Nio's vehicles, offering an interaction with the vehicle that no other device can offer. The phone will begin shipping on September 28.

Nio's first smartphone will feature a 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display from Samsung Display, for which the company has orders for just 50,000 pieces, according to local media.

Leapmotor's deliveries fell to just 1,139 units in January, but with the March 1 launch of the C11 SUV's EREV variant, its monthly deliveries have moved back above 14,000 units over the past two months.