NIO’s new 500 kW rapid chargers are coming to China and EU this year, NIO Power 2022.

At NIO’s 2d annual Power Day event, the Chinese EV automaker talked about the future of its charging and battery era, unveiling new 500 kW ultra-rapid-charging piles similar to Peak at its third era battery change centre.  Here is a short recap of NIO Power Day 2022.

Despite international delivery chain troubles stifling a great deal of the car enterprise in China and out, NIO remains one of the leaders in combining luxury, era, and revolutionary power replenishment to its all-electric powered vehicles.

Having formally released its ES7 SUV in China in the closing month, NIO’s EV lineup now consists of six options,  of which can be sedans just like the new ET7. To compete with numerous competition foreign places like XPeng and GAC Aion, NIO has evolved and carried out its personal rapid-charging batteries as well.

That being stated, NIO nonetheless stays the chief on a brief listing of different groups growing and increasing battery change stations. The automaker celebrated its first Power Day closing year as a counter to its annual NIO Day celebration, with a focal point on power replenishment – just like Tesla’s Battery Day.

Today, throughout the second one annual NIO Power Day, cofounder and president Qin Lihong shared a few new charging eras in its manner later this year.

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NIO Power Day consists of superior chargers and change stations

The annual event, which turned into a broadcast stay from China, passed off early this morning US time and was led via the means of NIO president Qin Lihong and his group, who spoke for over an hour and a half. To start, Qin shared information of a brand new ultra-rapid-charging pile coming to Europe and China via means of the cease of 2022.

The 500 kW rapid chargers have height currents of 650 amps – without difficulty a number of the maximum astonishing energy withinside the contemporary enterprise and a clean reaction to competition in China. In August of 2021, GAC Aion released a 480 kW rapid charger, which might have been extra astonishing if the agency hadn’t initially promised a six hundred kW charger.

Just closing week, chairman and CEO of fellow EV automaker XPeng He Xiaopeng stated the agency might be step by step rolling out its personal 480 kW/800V charging community later this year to help high-voltage charging on its upcoming G9 SUV.

According to He, XPeng’s new superchargers can supply 2 hundred km (124 miles) of variety in 5 mins and might top off an 800V battery percent from 10-80% in 12 mins. By providing 20 kW extra charging energy, NIO seems to offer even extra green EV charging to its clients and beyond.

According to NIO, 80% of supercharging pile classes are executed via means of clients riding different manufacturers of EVs. Qin used this second to name out different EV manufacturers to observe matches and open up their networks to all drivers.

NIO Power Day

New battery change stations and different stats

In addition to the brand new rapid-charging piles, NIO additionally brought its third-era battery change stations, which are nearing their cease of improvement and are being examined earlier than installations start in 2022/early 2023.

NIO’s first  2 hundred change stations carried out the first-era design, able to store 5 EV batteries. Swap stations 201 via 1,011 were the second one-era model, storing thirteen batteries along a most every day carrier ability of 312 swaps.

According to NIO, its third-era station will provide even extra battery ability and an extra bendy layout. To date, NIO’s battery change stations house a total of 8,961 batteries. That consists of three,821 long-variety battery packs and 5,one hundred forty standard-variety batteries. Here are a few different information shared via way of means of NIO throughout Power Day 2022:

In China via means of 2025, NIO could have a battery change community overlaying 9 vertical highways, 9 horizontal highways, and 19 city areas.

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By 2025, extra than 90% of NIO clients could have as a minimum one battery change station inside three km (1.nine miles) in their homes.

NIO plans to have over 4,000 battery change stations global via means of 2025, 1,000 foreign places.

The automaker is trying out using saved batteries to offer energy again to the grid under a given battery change station.

It has already finished vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trying out and could put into effect the era into utility eventualities withinside the destiny.

NIO has set up a complete of 127,528 domestic charging piles for clients

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