Nio introduces its fifth generation of battery swap stations in China
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Nio has launched the first fifth-generation battery swap stations in China. These new facilities were put into operation in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hefei, Chengdu, and Quanzhou. The station at Qiaoxiang Gymnasium in Quanzhou is also the company’s 4,000th battery swap station in the People’s Republic. As of August 7, Nio claimed to have a total of 4,006 swap stations in operation there.
The most significant technical change relates to vehicle compatibility. According to Nio, the newly developed swap platform adjusts its configuration to match each electric car and identifies its battery mounting points. Vehicles with wheelbases up to 3.5 meters are supported. This allows models from all three of the company’s brands—Nio, Onvo, and Firefly—to use the same swap station system for the first time, ranging from compact cars to SUVs.
The roughly four meters long electric city car from the Firefly brand has been unable to use Nio’s existing battery swap stations due to its shorter wheelbase. With the fifth generation of stations, this battery swapping concept is now being extended for the first time to the company’s smaller vehicle platforms. No official technical details are available yet regarding the battery capacity of the latest stations, the maximum number of swaps per day, or a reduced swap time compared to the fourth generation.
Along with the launch of its latest vehicle generation, Nio has reached another milestone in terms of usage: On August 7, the company reported that the 120-millionth battery swap was completed. The 100-million-swap mark had only been surpassed on February 6, 2026. At that time, the company operated 3,790 “Power Swap Stations” worldwide and announced plans to build another 1,000 stations in 2026.
In Europe, Nio currently has 61 Power Swap Stations. Meanwhile, the company has recently slowed down its expansion of international infrastructure and, according to recent media reports, does not plan to add any more battery swap stations on the continent in 2026. No date has been set for introducing the fifth generation of stations in Germany or other European markets.
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