Recently, NIO's battery swap has ushered in a major benefit. On January 11, Anhui Energy Group, Anhui Provincial Traffic Control Group, and NIO signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Jointly Promoting the Construction of an Open and Shared Storage, Charging and Swapping System", and gathered six companies to jointly establish Zhongan Energy (Anhui)** to create an open and shared storage, charging and swapping energy network. Wanneng Group is a wholly state-owned company funded by Anhui Province, which is mainly responsible for the investment of this cooperation; Anhui Traffic Control takes advantage of its resource advantages on the highway to provide natural convenience for Zhongan Energy to build 1,000 storage, charging and swapping stations in Anhui Province. NIO, on the other hand, is responsible for providing technical and operational support. With the entry of state-owned assets and the entry of the transportation industry, it seems that the development of the battery swap mode will accelerate again.
The establishment of Zhong'an Energy, which was established by the provincial energy group and the leading enterprises related to the new energy automobile industry, is the result of the official end of the first leading capital operation platform. Zhongan Energy is a new form of battery swap mode development, assets and technology and operation will be separated, Zhongan Energy holds assets, NIO provides technology and operates, and the two parties jointly build a future storage, charging and swapping station in the form of asset holding. The investment and capital entry of a number of energy companies such as Wanneng also shows that the public investment attribute of NIO's battery swap network has been widely recognized, and the development of the battery swap network has entered a new stage of rapid development.
In addition, Wanneng Group will join hands with Anhui Provincial Traffic Control Group and NIO to promote the construction plan of the first batch of 1,000 storage, charging and swapping stations through Zhongan Energy. These 1,000 storage, charging and swapping stations are a new energy supplement entity, which will start from Anhui and radiate the Yangtze River Delta, and gradually spread to the whole country. The storage, charging and swapping station is a new form open to the public, which will bring the public a more convenient energy replenishment experience. Not only can NIO car owners use these 1,000 stations, but it also provides charging services, which can meet the energy replenishment needs of the vast majority of new energy vehicle owners in the market. In the future, NIO's battery swap station and battery swap technology will no longer be a "moat", but will become a "moat".
On the same day, NIO also reached a strategic cooperation agreement on battery swapping with two major car companies, JAC and Chery, and so far, four mainstream car companies have carried out battery swap cooperation with NIO. This multi-party cooperation means that NIO's battery swap model has been recognized by the state-owned assets and the industry, and it also means that both the national level and the industry level have begun to promote the battery swap model. The new round of battery swap cooperation also shows that the construction and operation of NIO's battery swap station will greatly reduce costs, and more capital will enter the market in the future. It has to be said that this multi-party cooperation is an important inflection point, and the development of NIO's battery swap mode will accelerate again.