Nio averaged 40 companies per battery swap station on September 28, and stations alongside highways averaged 30.4 companies per station.
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Nio (NYSE: NIO) surpassed the 1,900 mark for battery swap stations in China and noticed a report variety of companies in a single day on the eve of a significant vacation.
The electrical car (EV) maker right now put 9 new battery swap stations into operation in China, bringing the overall variety of the ability to 1,904, and 560 of them are positioned alongside highways, its charging map knowledge present.
To this point this month, Nio has added 130 new battery swap stations in China, 100 of which had been added within the final 14 days.
Nio supplied 75,673 battery swaps on September 28, an all-time excessive for a single day, with battery swap stations alongside highways offering 16,779 companies, the corporate mentioned right now on Weibo.
As of September 28, Nio had 1,895 battery swap stations in China, together with 552 alongside highways.
Which means the corporate supplied a mean of 40 companies per battery swap station on September 28, with stations alongside highways offering a mean of 30.4 companies per station.
September 28 is the final working day earlier than this yr’s Nationwide Day vacation in China, which is often the beginning of the height journey interval. The vacation runs from September 29 to October 6, and October 7 and October 8 can be workdays, though they’re weekends.
Along with seeing a report variety of single-day battery swap companies, Nio additionally noticed greater than 1,500 battery upgrades on September 28 that pay every day.
On July 20, Nio introduced on the third annual Nio Energy Day occasion that it began permitting house owners to improve their customary 70/75-kWh vary battery packs to 100-kWh lengthy vary battery packs every day. Beforehand, house owners might solely improve yearly or month-to-month, or completely.
The extra value for each day upgrades was RMB 50 ($6.80) per day, whereas the associated fee per 31 days wouldn’t exceed the RMB 880 month-to-month improve charges, in response to Nio’s plan introduced on the time.
On September 5, Nio mentioned the price of upgrading the battery pack every day would improve to RMB 68 beginning September 25, and the each day value for the battery improve would drop again all the way down to RMB 50 on October 7 as the vacation ends.
As of September 28, Nio had cumulatively supplied greater than 20,000 battery upgrades that pay every day, it mentioned right now.
($1 = RMB 7.3015)
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