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NIO Life is once again collaborating with Chinese brand Red and Double Happiness on a co-branded product, after releasing sports equipment such as ping pong bats and badminton bats around Children's Day, but this time it's the popular "National Trend Sport". NIO x DHS Products (Credit: NIO) Founded in 1959, Red Double Happiness's specialty is table tennis, and its tables are often used in world competitions, including the Olympics. NIO Life and Red Double Happiness jointly released the "I am the champion" National Tide limited series, a total of 10 items in three categories: apparel, bags, shoes. The collection is the first time in the 61st year since the founding of Red Double Happiness that the retro logo "Xi" has been licensed. In fact, NIO also has sporting genes: NIO was founded in 2014, the year Formula E was created, and they were involved in it; on June 28th 2015, Brazilian rider Piquette Jr. brought back the first annual championship i...

On the morning of October 9, NIO announced the opening of its headquarters in Hefei, the economic and opening block of the Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone. NIO China HQ (Credit: NIO) As previously reported, NIO will establish a headquarters management, research and development, sales and service, and supply chain manufacturing integration base in Hefei. At the end of April this year, NIO signed an agreement with Hefei Construction Investment Holding (Group) Co Ltd, State Investment and Merchants Investment Management Co Ltd, and Anhui High-Tech Industry Investment Co Ltd, securing a 7 billion RMB investment from the latter three to establish NIO (Anhui) Holding Co Ltd. The majority of Celeste's domestic business and assets (valued at RMB 17.77 billion) will be injected into the company. NIO INC (the listed entity) will hold 75.9 percent of the joint venture, while investors will own 24.1 percent in total. The implementation of NIO China means that NIO has a concrete entity to raise fun...

In September 2020, NIO delivered 4,708 units overall, the first time the number of deliveries exceeded 4,000 in a single month, an increase of 133% YoY.  The ES8 delivered 1,482 units (+405% YoY), the ES6 delivered 3,210 units (+86% YoY). The EC6 delivered 16 units in its first month of delivery. So far this year, 26,375 units have been delivered.

On September 26th, Nio unveiled NIO OS version 2.7.0 at the 2020 Beijing Auto Show, the new version of the system adds Navigate on Pilot (NOP) pilot assist function, which will be pushed out in mid-October.  At the same time, Nio also unveiled an upgrade plan for its destination fast-charging station service, which will further expand the openness of Nio's recharge system and continue to improve the recharging experience for all EV users.  It is understood that the pilot assist function will be pushed to users in batches via FOTA (remote firmware upgrade) in October with the upgrade of NIOOS 2.7.0. In addition to NOP, the upgrade will also launch nearly 20 new and optimized functions such as camera-based driver fatigue warning, remote seat ventilation, 5.1 immersive surround sound, etc. to bring more relaxing and pleasant driving experience.  According to NIo, NOP Pilot Assist is a fusion of in-car navigation and NIOPilot, which can realize automatic ramp entry and exit, ...

On September 26th, the 2020 Beijing International Auto Show officially opened. NIO, one of the leaders in China's new energy vehicle sector, once again brought its NIO House to the auto show to bring us Navigate on Pilot and the Power Up Plan. This year's Beijing Auto Show will feature the NIO Power Switching Station, three types of charging stations, NIO Innovations' R&D and patents, and the NIO Life lifestyle and other corporate achievements. At the auto show, NIO OS 2.7.0 and Navigate on Pilot (NOP) were released. Navigate on Pilot (NOP) is the first NOP function in China that uses high precision maps in mass production, and is integrated with NOMI to provide humanized voice guidance to help users better understand the vehicle's intention and ensure driving safety. However, NOP is still an assisted driving function and cannot be fully relied upon, so you still need to stay focused while using it and take over the vehicle when needed to ensure safe driving. Nio ha...

On the morning of September 25, 2020, the first delivery ceremony of the NIO EC6 was held at NIO Space, COFCO Xiangyun Town, Shunyi, Beijing, and a total of 10 vehicles were delivered, with NIO's founder and president Qin Lihong and NIO's CFO Feng Wei present to deliver the keys to the owners. (Photo credit: Autohome)

NIO is releasing the driving data of its customers today, which shows that its customers have accumulated more than 1 billion kilometers of driving distance. In addition, the average daily mileage of NIO users has exceeded 3 million kilometers, and the total number of hours that users have used the NIO Pliot system has exceeded 1 million hours.