According to news on November 30, recently, NIO once again led the industry trend and reached a strategic cooperation with Geely Holding Group to jointly explore the development prospects of the battery swap business. This move follows the cooperation between NIO and Changan Automobile and the strategic agreement signed between Geely Holding Group and NIO, injecting new cooperation momentum into the electric vehicle industry.
Previously, Weilai and Changan Automobile announced a cooperation agreement on battery swap business, and they are committed to establishing battery swap standards, creating a complete battery swap system, and establishing battery asset management mechanism, and jointly conduct in-depth cooperation in various aspects such as pre-research on battery replacement products. NIO founder Li Bin responded to some employees’ doubts about the sustainability of the battery swap business, emphasizing battery swap as NIO’s first-mover advantage. He also revealed that in addition to Changan Automobile, there are 4-5 potential partners currently under negotiation. .
According to the editor’s understanding, Li Bin said that Weilai’s power exchange network is equivalent to the cloud service infrastructure of the energy Internet. It is analogous to cloud service companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Amazon, and Microsoft, emphasizing the importance of this infrastructure. importance. He pointed out that these cloud service companies experienced years of losses in the process of building cloud services before finally achieving their current success. This also provides deeper theoretical support for NIO’s investment and development in the field of battery swapping.
It is worth noting that Geely Holding Group has become another partner of NIO’s battery swap business, second only to Changan Automobile. In the strategic cooperation agreement signed in Hangzhou, the two parties will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in multiple fields, including battery exchange standards, technology, service network construction and model research and development, etc., to promote the common development of the electric vehicle industry. This also means that Weilai will continue to expand the scope of cooperation in its battery swap business among vehicle companies, injecting more innovative vitality into the entire industry
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