Nio goals so as to add 1,000 battery swap stations and 20,000 charging piles in 2024 in China.
Nio (NYSE: NIO) unveiled its fourth-generation battery swap station, new higher-power supercharger, and set up targets for 2024 at its Nio Day 2023 occasion in the present day.
4th-gen swap station
The electrical automobile (EV) maker’s upgraded battery swap station can have 23 battery bays and the capability of a single day’s service will likely be elevated to 480 with a 22 % discount in time per service, it mentioned.
This fourth-generation station will function 4 Nvidia Orin X chips with six ultra-wide angle LiDARs and an total computing energy of 1,016 Tops.
The configuration permits these websites to extra simply deal with complicated environments, opening up the potential for extra experiences the place they’re interconnected with autos, Nio mentioned.
The subsequent-generation websites will likely be appropriate with multi-size battery packs and assist multi-brand shared battery swap providers.
Nio will equip the fourth-generation stations with a 60-square-meter photovoltaic system on prime, saving practically 18,000 kWh of electrical energy per yr per station, in response to the corporate.
Set up of the brand new era of stations will start in April 2024, the corporate mentioned.
The battery swap stations that Nio is at present putting in are the third era, which was unveiled on the Nio Day 2022 occasion on December 24, 2022, and set up started in April 2023.
The third-generation battery swap station is able to storing as much as 21 battery packs, up from 13 in its predecessor and 5 within the first era of the ability.
The third-generation battery swap station elevated the capability of a single station to 408 providers per day, a 30 % enhance over the second-generation. Nio autos can change batteries on the third-generation station in as little as 2 minutes and 30 seconds, 20 % sooner than the earlier era.
Nio’s third-generation battery swap station is provided with two LiDARs and two NVIDIA Orin chips for a complete computing energy of 508 Tops.
Nio additionally unveiled the fourth era of its supercharger pile at in the present day’s occasion, with an additional enhance in peak energy over its predecessor.
This new supercharger has a peak energy of as much as 640 kW, a most output present of 765 A and a most output voltage of 1,000 V.
The supercharger pile has a liquid-cooled charging gun cable and weighs simply 2.4 kg, the lightest within the trade, Nio mentioned.
The charging pile allows clever distribution of charging energy and maximizes charging effectivity, the corporate mentioned.
Nio will start putting in this new era of superchargers in April 2024.
The corporate is at present putting in superchargers with a peak energy of 500 kW, unveiled on Nio Day 2022 and first put in in March 2023.
The five hundred-kW charging pile is able to delivering a most charging present of 660 A and may cost from 10 % to 80 % in as little as 12 minutes if the automobile is constructed on the 800 V platform, or 20 minutes for 400 V fashions.
Nio plans to proceed including 1,000 battery swap stations in China in 2024, bringing the whole to greater than 3,310.
The corporate unveiled plans so as to add 400 battery swap stations in 2023 at Nio Day 2022, however raised that focus on to 1,000 in February.
Yesterday, Nio achieved its goal of including 1,000 battery swap stations this yr, taking the whole to 2,305.
The corporate goals so as to add 20,000 new charging piles by 2024, taking the whole to greater than 41,000.
Nio final month introduced partnerships with Changan Vehicle and Geely Holding to construct a battery swap community and battery swap-enabled fashions.
Nio’s battery swap community will embrace each a devoted community and a shared community, which the corporate will start constructing subsequent yr and will likely be accessible for each the Nio and Alps manufacturers, William Li, Nio’s founder, chairman, and CEO, mentioned in a December 5 earnings name.
Nio reaches goal of including 1,000 swap stations in China in 2023