NIO has become a group made up of three different brands
- The Chinese carmaker NIO was founded in 2016, but its first commercially available model dates back to 2018. NIO designs, produces, and markets premium electric vehicles; in fact, it was one of the first Chinese carmakers to venture into this type of vehicle. NIO has also entered the battery charging infrastructure market. NIO operates a battery swapping system and more than 1,500 battery swapping stations in China. This system allows for the rapid replacement of a depleted battery with a charged one, rather than recharging the vehicle at a charging station, which can take many hours. Despite this technological advantage, NIO has not managed to outsell its main competitors. For the first 11 months of 2025, the NIO brand produced 151,149 electric cars in China and therefore expects to produce approximately 165,000 vehicles for the entire year.
- The current range consists of seven different models : NIO ET5 (D-segment sedan, BEV, 4.79 m long, 61,386 units over 11 months to 2025), NIO ET7 (E-segment sedan, BEV, 5.10 m long, 2,630 units), NIO ET9 (F-segment sedan, BEV, 5.32 m long, 3,268 units), NIO EC6 (E-segment SUV, BEV, 4.85 m long, 16,489 units), NIO EC7 (E-segment SUV, BEV, 4.97 m long, 890 units), NIO ES6 (D-segment SUV, BEV, 4.85 m long, 40,427 units), NIO ES8 (E-segment SUV, BEV, 5.10 m long, 26,059 units).
- The NIO brand has been steadily growing since 2018. Its production volume in China increased from 11,348 units in 2018 to 20,565 in 2019, 43,728 in 2020, 91,429 in 2021, 122,486 in 2022, 160,038 in 2023, and 221,970 in 2024. In 2025, the production volume of the NIO brand is estimated at 165,000 units, to which must be added 125,000 Onvo (a new brand of the NIO group) and 40,000 Firefly (another new brand of the NIO group), thus totaling 330,000 units for the entire NIO group.