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Nio Power Day 2022: EV maker unveils 500-kW ultra-fast charging pile, teases 3rd-gen swap station

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Nio will begin installing 500-kW ultrafast charging piles in China and Europe by the end of the year, and details of the third-generation swap station expected to be announced by the end of the year or early next year.

By 2025, Nio will have a battery swap network in China covering 9 vertical highways, 9 horizontal highways and 19 urban clusters.

By 2025, more than 90 percent of Nio users will have at least one battery swap station within three kilometers of their homes.

Nio reiterates that it will have more than 4,000 battery swap stations worldwide by 2025, 1,000 of which will be located overseas.

Nio is testing the use of stored batteries to provide power to the grid at a battery swap station. If this method is used on a large scale, it is expected to reduce the costs of battery swap stations.

Nio has completed vehicle-to-grid testing and will get it into application scenarios in the future.

Nio uses digital twin technology to simulate the operation of real battery swap stations in digital space.

To date, Nio's battery swap stations store a total of 8,961 batteries, including 3,821 long-range batteries and 5,140 standard-range batteries.

A total of 80 percent of the power provided by Nio's supercharging piles is used by other brands of electric vehicles. Qin is calling on all EV brands to open up their charging piles to all users.

Nio launched Power-up Trips, an electric vehicle roadbook product co-created by users, in its mobile app.

Nio has 256 battery swap stations along highways in China, and they have provided a total of 1.7 million battery swaps to users. To date, Nio has 1,011 battery swap stations in China.

A total of 62.1 percent of Nio users have at least a battery swap station within a 3km radius of their homes, with the highest percentage in Shenzhen at 84 percent.

Nio has installed a total of 127,528 home charging piles for customers.

To date, Nio's one-click power-up has provided 821,350 services.

Nio co-founder and president Qin Lihong is presenting data on the company's replenishment infrastructure.