NIO's Fourth-Generation Battery Swap Station Goes Online in Guangzhou and Lu'an

NIO's first batch of fourth-generation battery swap stations officially went online this morning in Guangzhou and Lu'an. A Laodao L60 car completed the first battery swap and slowly drove out of the swap station.

The fourth-generation battery swap station of NIO was released in December 2023, equipped with 23 battery compartments, with a maximum daily service of 480 times, and the single battery swap time is reduced by 22%; it is equipped with a 60-square-meter rooftop photovoltaic system, and each station saves nearly 18,000 kWh of electricity per year, becoming a photovoltaic-storage-charging-battery swap integrated station.

NIO's fourth-generation battery swap station is equipped with 4 NVIDIA OrinX chips and 6 ultra-wide-angle lidar, with a total station computing power of 1016 TOPS; it is compatible with multiple specification battery packs and supports multi-brand shared battery swap.

According to the plan, throughout 2024, NIO will add 1000 battery swap stations in the Chinese market and cumulatively build more than 3310; add 20,000 charging piles and cumulatively build more than 41,000.

According to TapTechNews' previous report, the first model L60 of Laodao, a sub-brand of NIO Automobile, was released on May 15, with a pre-sale price starting from 219,900 yuan and will start listing and delivery in September this year.

The car consumes 12.1 kWh of electricity per 100 kilometers, claiming the lowest energy consumption of a medium-sized SUV in the industry, and will offer three different battery packs of 555 km, 730 km, and over 1000+ km. The new car claims that the charging experience is the second in the industry (the official implies that NIO is the first in the industry), and it supports one-click automatic parking in the battery swap platform, and the whole battery swap only takes 3 minutes.