Nio’s shared battery packs would be the subsequent era of mass-market battery packs that help ultra-fast charging, and the battery swap expertise for Nio clients will solely get higher, William Li mentioned.
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Nio (NYSE: NIO) instructed present car house owners that their battery swap expertise won’t be affected, following announcement of a partnership with automotive large Chongqing Changan Vehicle.
What Nio will share would be the subsequent era of mass-market battery packs that help ultra-fast charging, William Li, the Chinese language electrical car (EV) maker’s founder, chairman and CEO, wrote within the feedback part of an announcement on the Nio app at present.
House owners of Nio-branded automobiles can relaxation assured that the battery swap expertise will solely get higher, Li added.
Earlier at present, Nio introduced that it signed a battery swap enterprise partnership settlement with Changan at present in Chongqing, a metropolis in southwest China the place the latter is headquartered.
The 2 firms will collectively facilitate the formulation of requirements for swappable batteries, construct and share the battery swapping community, develop swappable automobiles, and set up an environment friendly battery asset administration mechanism, Nio mentioned.
Nio’s assertion at present offered no particulars in regards to the partnership, although inner remarks by Li yesterday revealed some data.
Li initiated an inner speak and Q&A for the corporate’s whole workforce on November 20, specializing in subjects akin to current organizational optimization, quantity pressures, and the route of the subsequent two years.
Responding to an worker’s doubt in regards to the sustainability of the corporate’s battery swap enterprise, he mentioned battery swap is a big first-mover benefit for Nio and the time has come to open it as much as all the business.
“Our battery swap enterprise has reached a degree the place it is able to be opened to the general public, and we will probably be sharing our commonplace for the subsequent era of battery packs, the 800 V high-voltage, quick battery swap platform, with all the business,” Li mentioned.
This appears to imply that the greater than 2,000 battery swap stations that Nio at the moment has will probably be unique to the model’s customers, whereas those that will probably be open to its companions are prone to be the next-generation stations that will probably be put in sooner or later.
Nio accomplished its first battery swap station in Shenzhen on Might 20, 2018. The corporate’s preliminary 200 stations had been first-generation and will solely maintain as much as 5 batteries.
The corporate began placing its second-generation battery swap stations into operation in April 2021, with a most capability of 13 batteries.
In April this 12 months, Nio’s first 10 third-generation battery swap stations got here on-line, bringing the variety of stations at the moment to 1,342. These third-generation stations can retailer as much as 21 battery packs.
As of at present, the corporate has 2113 battery swap stations in China, offering greater than 32 million battery swap providers in whole.
Nio at the moment sells fashions based mostly on the mainstream 400-volt NT 2.0 platform, and the corporate will launch the primary mannequin below the sub-brand codenamed Alps subsequent 12 months, which is predicted to be based mostly on the 800-volt NT 3.0 platform.
Alps’ first mannequin, internally codenamed DOM, would be the first mannequin below the Nio umbrella based mostly on the next-generation platform NT 3.0, native media outlet AutoPix mentioned in an October 13 report.
The NT 3.0 platform may have a number of upgrades over Nio’s present NT 2.0-based fashions on sale, together with the adoption of the at the moment fashionable 800-volt high-voltage structure, leading to a fair higher charging expertise, the report mentioned.
Nio ties up with Changan because it wins 1st companion on battery swap community sharing