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Monthly Archive: June 2023
NIO adds 10 showrooms and 66 swap stations worldwide in May
As of May 31, NIO had 118 NIO Houses and 269 NIO Spaces worldwide. | NIO US | NIO HK | NIO SG
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NIO (NYSE: NIO) continued its expansion of showrooms and infrastructure in May.
The Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker added 10 showrooms and 66 battery swap stations worldwide in May, according to information released today by the NIO App.
NIO's showrooms include the flagship NIO Houses and the smaller NIO Spaces. The former is a space where NIO offers owners a quality lifestyle, in addition to displaying and selling vehicles.
The company added four new NIO Houses in May, all of which are located in China. To date, the total number of NIO Houses worldwide is 118, including 114 in China and 4 in Europe.
NIO added six NIO Spaces in May, all of which are also located in China. As of May 31, NIO had 269 NIO Spaces worldwide, including 263 in China and 6 overseas.
NIO also added 10 new service centers in May, including three in China and seven overseas. This brings the total number of facilities to 299, including 257 in China and 42 overseas.
NIO added 1 new delivery center in May, bringing the total number of such facilities to 53.
In May, NIO added 66 battery swap stations, including 64 in China and 2 overseas.
As of May 31, NIO had 1,464 battery swap stations worldwide, with 1,448 in China and 16 overseas.
NIO also added 93 charging stations in May, bringing the number to 2,648, of which 2,640 are in China and 8 are overseas.
As of May 31, NIO had 15,673 charging piles worldwide, including 15,649 in China and 24 overseas.
NIO's charging map added access to 22,511 third-party charging piles in May, bringing the total to more than 1,110,000, including more than 400,000 overseas.
The company is expected to announce vehicle delivery figures for May later today. It delivered 6,658 vehicles in April, down 35.85 percent from 10,378 in March.
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Geely Galaxy launches 1st model L7 to gain share in hybrid market
The Geely Galaxy L7 is available in five versions with a starting price of RMB 138,700, or about $19,500.
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Geely Galaxy, the new energy vehicle (NEV) sub-brand of Geely Auto Group, has made its first model, the L7, available to gain share from the plug-in hybrid market.
Geely Galaxy officially made the L7 available in China at a launch event yesterday, offering five versions with starting prices of RMB 138,700 ($19,500), RMB 143,700, RMB 153,700, RMB 163,700, and RMB 173,700, respectively.
The Geely Galaxy L7 is a hybrid SUV with a length, width and height of 4,700 mm, 1,905 mm and 1,685 mm, respectively, and a wheelbase of 2,785 mm.
Based on the e-CMA architecture, the vehicle is powered by a 1.5T four-cylinder engine with a combined maximum system power of 287 kW and a combined maximum torque of 535Nm and can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.9 seconds.
The Geely Galaxy L7 has two battery range options, with a CLTC pure electric range of 55 km and 115 km respectively. The model has a combined range of up to 1,370 km on full fuel and full charge.
The car is powered by a 1.5T engine with a thermal efficiency of 44.26 percent, ranking first among known production engines, said Geely Galaxy.
The Geely Galaxy L7 supports fast charging and external discharge, taking 30 minutes to replenish energy from 30 percent to 80 percent.
The vehicle uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, the cockpit chip currently used in mainstream flagship electric vehicles in the Chinese market.
First deliveries of the L7 will begin on June 13, Geely Galaxy said.
Geely Auto Group officially launched the new Geely Galaxy brand on February 24 and unveiled its first production model, the L7.
Geely Galaxy plans to launch a total of seven models by 2025, including four plug-in hybrids in the L-series and three all-electric models in the E-series.
Geely Galaxy will launch the L6 in the third quarter of 2023, the L5 in the second quarter of 2024, and will launch the L9 in 2025.
In the all-electric product sequence, Geely Galaxy will launch the Galaxy E8 in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Galaxy E7 in the second quarter of 2024, and the Galaxy E6 in the third quarter of 2024.
Geely Auto Group CEO Gan Jiayue said in January that the group's sales target for 2023 is 1.65 million vehicles, including 600,000 NEVs.
Geely Auto Group sold 1.43 million vehicles in 2022, up 8 percent from a year earlier, including about 330,000 NEVs, according to data monitored by CnEVPost.
In April, the group sold 113,642 vehicles, up 3 percent from 110,300 in March, according to data it released last month.
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Geely Galaxy brand officially launched, to roll out 7 models by 2025
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NREL & Volvo Group To Chart Course Toward Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles
In collaboration with Volvo Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers charted a path forward for achieving a zero-emission future for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs). Together, the industry/research team explored the current status and mapped the opportunity space and the requirements for various technologies that could help turn that vision into reality. A recent […]
NIO ET5 wait time becomes longer, EC7 and ES7 shorter
The NIO ET5 wait time has changed from 2-3 weeks to about 3 weeks, the EC7 from 5-7 weeks to about 5 weeks, and the ES7 from about 4 weeks to about 3 weeks. | NIO US | NIO HK | NIO SG
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NIO (NYSE: NIO) has three models that saw their wait times change today, with one becoming longer and the other two becoming shorter.
The ET5 -- NIO's cheapest model currently on sale -- has an updated wait time of about 3 weeks, slightly higher than the previous 2-3 weeks, the latest check by CnEVPost shows.
The sedan's wait time last changed on May 16, when it went from about two weeks to 2-3 weeks.
The latest wait time for the NIO ES7 SUV is about 3 weeks, a week shorter than the previous wait time of about 4 weeks. The last change in the wait time for the model was on May 9, when it went from about 3 weeks to about 4 weeks.
NIO launched the ES7 on June 15, 2022, the company's second model based on the NT 2.0 platform after the ET7 and the first SUV on the second-generation platform.
The first delivery of the NIO ES7 was on August 28, 2022. The company does not disclose deliveries of the ES7 when it announces delivery figures each month.
The wait time for NIO's new coupe SUV EC7 changed to about 5 weeks today, down from the previous 5-7 weeks. The last change in the model's wait time was on May 16, when it went from about 5 weeks to 5-7 weeks.
The EC7 was launched on NIO Day 2022 on December 24, 2022, with the first delivery on April 28 of this year.
Except for ET5, EC7 and ES7, the expected delivery dates of other NIO models remain unchanged today.
Deliveries of the new ES8 will begin in June, the wait time for the new ES6 is still not shown, and the ET7 is about 3 weeks, information from the NIO App monitored by CnEVPost shows.
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Should Elon Musk’s Construction Projects Rise Above Minimum Local Regs? Texas Neighbors Say “Yes!”
Tesla is weathering a barrage of complaints from critics and regulators who say Musk is moving too fast. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has analyzed several alleged violations against the company's building sites.
Introducing the Fisker Ocean
The Fisker Ocean surprised me. I am sold. When sitting in a show model at the Nordic EV Summit in Oslo, I expected to sit in an SUV starting at around $100,000 (€94,000). Now I see price ranges of $37,500 to $76,000, or for me in the Dutch market, €42,000 to €70,000. With the right […]
