Phate Zhang

The battery will give the Nio ES8 a range of 850 kilometers, the ES6 a range of 900 kilometers and the ET7 a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.

Edison Yu's team hosted their first China EV Ride & Drive event with investors in Oslo last week, where participants had the opportunity to test drive models including the Nio ES8, Xpeng P7, Zeekr 001, and Aiways U5.

Guangzhou, Harbin, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang, Wuhan and Xi'an are the 10 cities that have made the shortlist for Nio Day 2022.

Baidu aims to put a large fleet of mass-produced Apollo RT6 vehicles into trial operation on its Robotaxi platform Apollo Go in the second half of 2023.

Tesla's California plant has an annual capacity of 650,000 units, while its Berlin and Texas plants both have an annual capacity of more than 250,000 units.

In June and July, Nio stores saw significant increases in traffic and orders, making it difficult to meet delivery demand, according to an executive at the EV maker.

As a comparison, China's NEV penetration rate was 24 percent in the first half of the year.

Sinopec aims to reach 5,000 charging and battery swap stations by 2025.

The battery swap station is the first to be built since Nio entered into a partnership with the Shangri-La Group and is located in the parking lot of a Shangri-La hotel in Beijing.

To date, Nio has 75 battery swap stations and 114 charging stations in Beijing.