NIO is a Chinese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, although NIO has ended funding the team after selling to Lisheng Racing.

NIO was founded in November 2014 by William Li, the Chairman of Bitauto and NextEV. After launch, several companies invested in NIO, including Tencent, Temasek, Sequoia, Lenovo and TPG. Its first model, the NIO EP9 sports car, debuted the same day the brand was established.

NIO Life

NIO Life is the company's clothing collection, made in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan.

NIO Service

NIO Service is the company's network of service centers.

NIO Power

NIO Power is the company's network of battery swap stations, power mobile, power home and super chargers. NIO has 122 Swap Stations around China, including 18 battery swap stations along the G4 Expressway in China.

ep9

Each of the EP9's wheels has its own motor and transmission. Each motor has 250 kW (335.25 hp), giving the car a total power output of 1 MW (1,360 PS). The EP9 is both all-wheel drive, and individual-wheel drive. The car has an advanced torque vectoring system that can adjust the power output to each wheel. The EP9's battery can last up to 427 km  before it needs to be charged. Recharging takes 45 minutes, and battery replacement takes 8 minutes as the batteries need to be removed when recharged.

es6

The NIO ES6 is an all-electric, 5-seater mid-size sport utility vehicle manufactured by NIO. The ES6 is the second SUV product by NIO, and was put into production in 2019 for the Chinese market.

The ES6 is powered by a lithium-ion battery pack, a package that is also swappable just like the NIO ES8.

The ES6 is a 5-seater mid-size production SUV, with a wheelbase of 2,900 mm and a body length of 4,850 mm. The body and chassis are completely aluminum, and the drivetrain is all-wheel drive standard, and featured active air suspension. The design includes the X-bar and NIO's signature "Spark Beat" taillights. The range of the car with one battery charge starts from 410, with a top of the range battery pack capacity of up to 100 kWh and an NEDC range of up to 620 km. The acceleration time from 0-100 km/h is 4.7 seconds.

es8

The NIO ES8 is an all-electric, 7-seater full-sized Sport Utility Vehicle manufactured by NIO. The ES8 was put into production in June 2018 for the Chinese market.

NIO tested the vehicle for thousands of kilometres in Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia, China to test the car's economy and performance. The production and delivery started end of June 2018. The price starts at US$65,000. The car's EV powertrain was developed by Tata Technologies. Nio is cooperating with Bosch. The ES8 is powered by a lithium-ion battery pack, a package that is also swappable. 

The ES8 is a 7-seater full-size production car, with a wheelbase of 2,997 millimetres  and a body length of 4,978 millimetres. The body and chassis are completely aluminum, and the drivetrain is all-wheel drive standard, and also features active air suspension. The design includes the X-bar and NIO's signature "Spark Beat" taillights. The range of the car with one battery charge is 500 km.

The ES8, on sale in China since 2018, is a seven-seat Tesla Model X rival with a combined 641bhp from its four-wheel-drive, twin-motor powertrain. Inside, the ES8’s quality feel continues, with an interior that's cloaked in Nappa leather. The electrically adjustable, heated, ventilated and massaging front seats are comfortable and supportive. The passenger chair has a business class range of movement. Should its occupant wish to catch up on some sleep, there’s an electric footrest that folds out from where the glovebox should be. Alternatively, they can glide back to tend an infant seated in the middle row of three seats.

et5

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The ET5's exterior design is said to evoke Nio's EP9 supercar DNA and be ready for "Autonomous Driving”. ET5 is 4.79 m  long and integrates high-performance autonomous driving sensors. The car has a rear ducktail spoiler, front air curtain, flush doorhandles, soft close doors and frameless windows to improve aerodynamic efficiency. The car has a 1.28m2 panoramic roof, said to protect up to 99.9% of UV rays from the sun.

The interior of the ET5 features a panoramic digital cockpit with AR and VR technology. ET5's interior was inspired by trends in furniture, fashion, and footwear.

The ET5 has two electric motors: a 150 kW (204 PS) induction motor in the front, and a 210 kW (286 PS) permanent magnet motor in the rear of the car, which produce a combined output of 487 PS and 700 N⋅m. The 0 to 100 km/h acceleration is 4.0 seconds, the braking distance from 100 to 0 km/h is 33.9 m, and the drag coefficient is 0.24.

The ET5 is compatible with Nio's Power Swap Stations that allow to swap the battery in a few minutes and, as of 2023, are available in China, Norway, and Germany.

et7

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The NIO ET7 was unveiled in China on 9 January 2021 at the 'NIO Day' event in Chengdu, retaining many design cues of the 2019 NIO ET Preview concept car. It will be launched in early 2022 with a starting price of $69,200 USD. It acts as a direct competitor to Tesla's Model S sedan in China.

The interior of the ET7 features an AI assistant on the dashboard, an electronic instrument cluster, a large center touchscreen, and a 23-speaker audio system with a 1000-watt output.

The NIO ET7 comes available with three battery options: a 70 kWh battery (NEDC range of 500 km), a 100 kWh battery (NEDC range of 700 km), and a 150 kWh solid-state battery (NEDC range of 1000 km), which has an energy density of 360Wh/kg.

The ET7 has two electric motors, one in the front and rear of the car, which produce a combined output of 644 hp and 850 Nm. The 0 to 100 km acceleration is 3.9 seconds, the braking distance from 100 to 0 km is 33.5 m, and the drag coefficient is 0.23 Cd.

The autonomous driving system in the NIO ET7 is called Aquila, which uses 33 sensors, including 11 8-megapixel high-definition cameras and a long-distance high-definition camera, a high-resolution LIDAR with a 500 m range, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, and 2 high-precision positioning units. The Aquila autonomous driving system generates 8 gigabytes of data per second which is analyzed by an onboard computer called Adam.

battery swapping

Unlike Tesla, which has tried battery swapping but has never deployed it on a large scale and relies instead on its Supercharger network, Nio has built a functioning network of 131 battery-swap stations that covers several thousand kilometers of Chinese expressways. These battery swapping stations have a reported swapping time of five minutes.

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The NIO team is one of the original Formula E teams, originally competing under the name Team China Racing. Before the first season was completed, they rebranded as NEXTEV TCR. In this inaugural season, their main driver Nelson Piquet Jr became the FIA Formula E Driver's Champion, after winning two races in Long Beach and Moscow. The team was only able to achieve fourth in the constructor's championship though, in part due to a rotating line-up of second drivers that didn't achieve as consistent level of success as Piquet.

From season 2 onwards, Formula E opened up car development, with teams creating their own powertrains. Nio used their own design NEXTEV powertrain, but it saw a downturn in the team's performance for the constructor's championship, as they finished only 9th in season 2, 6th in season 3 and 8th in season 4. By this point, the team had morphed through NEXTEV, NEXTEV NIO until renamed simply NIO. Season 5 would see the team's meagre successes diminish further, as they languished 11th and last in the championship.

For season 6 (2019-2020) the team was sold on to Lisheng Racing and renamed NIO 333 Racing. For the first time since season 1, NIO did not provide their own powertrain for the car, instead using the previous year's Dragon powertrain. This was rebranded under NIO's name and they remain classified as a manufacturer.

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