Battery swap works: Nio completes 1.2 million swaps in a SINGLE WEEK — SkimNews
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- Nio completed 1,192,221 battery swaps between October 1 and 7 across its roughly 4,100 swap stations, with a daily average nearly 22% higher than the year prior, per a holiday charging and battery-swap report released Friday.
- Nio's swap network delivered more than 24.83 million kWh of electricity during the week, with highway travelers accounting for a substantial share of the demand.
- The swap process takes three to five minutes per vehicle — with drivers remaining inside their cars — and in many cases beats the time needed to fill a gas tank.
- Nio had already strung together multiple six-figure swap days during the third day of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations earlier in the year, marking the third such record in as many days at that point.
- Peak daily volume during the holiday week reached roughly 175,000 swaps, underscoring that the system handled peak demand without apparent strain.
Why it matters: The figures undercut the Western headline narrative that range anxiety and charging-time gaps make EVs impractical for road trips: Nio's network handled peak holiday traffic at a pace that rivals gas-station refueling, doing so through dedicated infrastructure rather than faster plug-in charging.
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