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Nio adds 4 swap stations, bringing total to 567

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As of October 27, Nio has 567 battery swap stations and 406 supercharging stations, providing 2,458 charging piles.

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Nio today added four new battery swap stations, bringing the total to 567.

The four facilities are located in Huzhou, Shanghai, Taizhou and Kunshan, with the one in Taizhou located near the entrance to the highway, bringing the company's number of battery swap stations along the highway to 118.

Nio also added three new supercharging stations today, bringing the total to 406, providing 2,458 charging piles.

In addition, the company has 556 destination charging stations with 3,095 charging piles and access to more than 420,000 third-party charging piles.

The figures of the below table are from the information published by Nio on Weibo and the official app.

Abbreviations in the table:

Swap = battery swap stations

Chargers = supercharging stations

Destination = destination charging stations

Third Party = Access to third-party charging piles

For those who are not sure what the difference is between these facilities, here is a brief explanation of them.

Battery swap stations are Nio's signature replenishment facility and it is currently the only company offering such models to the general consumer. There are also companies in China that offer models with battery swap support, but for the cab market.

Nio's supercharging stations are facilities similar to Tesla's Supercharger stations, which are the primary way that other EV makers provide users with replenishment in public places.

Information on Nio's website shows that its supercharging stations can provide a maximum of 180 kW of power and 250A of current, and that vehicles can be charged from 20 percent to 80 percent in half an hour.

The destination charging stations are mainly used in scenarios where vehicles are parked for longer periods of time, such as hotels and offices.

Nio uses home charging piles that are also available to customers in the destination charging stations, with two types of power: 7 kW and 20 kW.

For a standard range model with a 75-kWh battery pack, it takes 11.5 hours to charge from 10 percent to 100 percent using a 7-kW charger and 4 hours using a 20-kW charger.

For more on Nio's efforts to build energy replenishment facilities, click on our "Nio Power Tracker" section.