Nio to open battery swap manufacturing plant in Hungary
Chinese language electrical automobile (EV) maker Nio is opening its first abroad plant in Hungary in September. The Nio Energy Europe facility, which will likely be situated in Pest, will make battery swapping stations and supply aftermarket providers for these stations.
Nio’s EVs are powered by a replaceable battery, which means drivers can both prime up the cost at an everyday recharging level or swap out the entire battery at a devoted Nio Energy Swap station. The stations are totally automated and it takes lower than 5 minutes to swap the battery.
The ten,000 sq.m facility can even function as an R&D centre for energy merchandise and supply coaching for energy operations in Europe.
Nio is already exporting automobiles from China to Norway the place it already has one battery swap station and plans so as to add 20+ this yr. The EV maker will start exports to Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden this yr, with battery swap networks in every nation.
To assist these plans Nio stated that its operations in Hungary will mark step one in constructing Nio Energy Swap stations in these international locations and establishing native battery swapping and charging providers.
Earlier this month it stated it was planning to broaden its battery swap community to roughly 4,000 stations over the subsequent few years with round 1,000 exterior of China. As of July 31, this yr Nio had deployed 1,047 Energy Swap stations in China, by means of which over 10m battery swaps had been accomplished cumulatively.
