The station is Nio’s first second-generation battery swap station in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, which opened on August 29, 2021.
A fireplace at one in all Nio’s (NYSE: NIO) battery swap stations has made it a speaking level within the Chinese language neighborhood, simply as the corporate celebrates the launch of its 1,five hundredth station.
A fireplace broke out at a brand new power automobile (NEV) battery swap station in Jiangmen, southern China’s Guangdong province, at midday on June 25, native media outlet The Cowl reported.
The station is owned by Nio and the hearth was extinguished at 14:38, with no accidents, the report stated, citing Jiangmen authorities.
The battery swap station covers an space of about 25 sq. meters and shops 13 batteries, together with eight lithium batteries and 5 lithium iron phosphate batteries, the report stated.
Nio has two battery swap stations in Jiangmen, and the one concerned within the accident was its first second-generation battery swap station within the metropolis, which opened on August 29, 2021, and its 402nd in China, in keeping with the report.
Nio has not but issued a press release on the incident, which has been broadly mentioned on social media, together with Weibo, and in WeChat teams.
Jiangmen is situated in western Guangdong, and the station is ready to serve house owners touring to Guangzhou, Zhongshan and Yangjiang, in keeping with a earlier Nio App submit.
The positioning can even assist full the replenishment community within the area’s core cities and will probably be one of many power replenishment nodes connecting Guangzhou to Haikou, Nio beforehand stated.
Notably, earlier as we speak, Nio introduced that it had reached the milestone of 1,500 battery swap stations in China, with a cumulative whole of greater than 24 million battery swap companies supplied.
On common, a automobile leaves Nio’s battery swap stations with a totally charged battery each 1.8 seconds, the corporate stated, including that greater than 60 % of Nio automobiles’ energy comes from these stations.
At present, 72.44 % of Nio house owners can discover a battery swap station inside 3 kilometers of their dwelling or workplace, Nio stated.
Nio additionally put 10 supercharging stations into operation as we speak, bringing the full to 1,450 and offering 7,156 charging piles. It added an extra two vacation spot charging stations as we speak, bringing the full to 1,277 stations with 9,048 charging piles.
Nio reaches 1,500 swap stations in China because it goals for two,300 by year-end