Nio and its Firefly brand will start working with Moobi, the EV workshop network of auto-parts group LKQ, on October 1 to expand their service coverage across the Netherlands.
The partnership starts four years after Nio entered the Dutch market in October 2022.
“As of October 1, we will start our collaboration with Moobi, part of LKQ, with which we will further expand our service network in the Netherlands nationwide,” Tristan Hamelink, Nio’s Regional Director for Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, wrote on LinkedIn on Friday.
“This collaboration is mainly about one thing: our Users. Good service should be professional, reliable and available as close as possible to our customers,” he wrote.
Neither company disclosed financial terms or how many workshops will service Nio and Firefly cars from October 1.
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Moobi says it has more than 300 member workshops in the Netherlands.
They are independent, multi-brand garages trained and equipped by LKQ to maintain and repair electric and hybrid cars.
Each will decide for itself whether to become a Nio and Firefly service partner, Nio Netherlands marketing manager Mark Heiligers told Aftersales Magazine.
“They are all independent entrepreneurs. So they can decide for themselves whether they are interested in this,” he said, in Dutch.
The companies launched the partnership at the EV Experience, a three-day event at Circuit Zandvoort that ends on Saturday, where Moobi is the official maintenance partner.
“With a strong network of specialized centers, extensive EV expertise and the support of LKQ, Moobi is a professional partner for us to take that next step,” Hamelink wrote.
Moobi fitted two Firefly cars with its own stickers for the event.
Hamelink was joined at the launch by Onno Duimel, Nio’s Head of Service Europe.
LKQ’s Workshop Label
Moobi is a workshop concept run by LKQ Europe, the European arm of Tennessee-based LKQ Corporation.
It reached 300 member workshops in July 2025, according to Moobi.
Its members can check high-voltage batteries module by module and replace faulty modules “according to the manufacturer’s protocols,” Moobi says on its website.
EV found no earlier agreement in which a carmaker named Moobi as its official service network in the Netherlands.
LKQ’s Dutch business already services other new electric brands through a separate workshop network, Lease Service Partner.
Zeekr signed a letter of intent with LKQ’s then-Dutch unit Fource in December 2023, and VinFast agreed an aftersales partnership with LKQ Netherlands in April 2025, starting with nine certified workshops.
LKQ launched a strategic review in January “including a potential sale of the Company,” it said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dutch Volumes
The network will service a small fleet.
Nio Inc. registered 51 vehicles in the Netherlands in the first eight months of 2026, down 47.4% from 97 a year earlier, according to data from Dutch car-industry association BOVAG.
Firefly accounted for 43 of them, or 84.3%.
The Nio brand registered eight cars, down 90.5% from 84, and none at all in April, May or August.
April and May were the first consecutive months without a Nio-brand registration since the company entered the Netherlands.
Between 2023 and 2024, the brand was registering roughly 20 to 40 vehicles a month in the Dutch market.
BOVAG’s figures cover vehicles bought outright and exclude cars operated under the Nio Subscription programme, as EV exclusively reported.
Nio Inc. registered two vehicles in July, tying its worst Dutch month on record, and four in August, all of them Fireflys.
The group registered 252 vehicles in the Netherlands in 2025, including 199 under the Nio brand and 53 Fireflys, according to BOVAG.
That total was boosted by a record 107 registrations in December, 85 of them Nio-brand cars, as buyers rushed ahead of Dutch tax changes.
Firefly began customer deliveries in the Netherlands and Norway in August 2025.
Its 2025 total includes seven cars registered in June and July, before the commercial launch, which were test and press vehicles.
The compact hatchback, priced from €29,900 ($34,100) in the Netherlands, was named Dutch Car of the Year by AutoRAI in December.
Every Nio-brand car on sale in Europe was built in 2023 or 2024, and Nio said at a customer event in the Netherlands that no model updates would reach the continent until late 2027, EV reported exclusively.
The launch of the Onvo sub-brand in Europe was recently delayed from 2027 to “2028-2029.”
Nio’s China-built cars imported into the European Union carry a combined 30.7% tariff, made up of a 20.7% countervailing duty on top of the standard 10% levy.
From KwikFit to Moobi
Nio launched in Europe on October 7, 2022, and delivered its first car in the Netherlands, an ET7, nine days later.
It named KwikFit as its Dutch service partner that month, with plans for more than 40 service points, KwikFit said.
By November 2023, Nio’s Dutch network included five authorised service centres, 19 smaller sites for maintenance and tyres, eight Schadenet body shops and one battery repair centre, Nio said.
Nio has not said whether those partners will remain alongside Moobi. Hamelink described the Moobi deal as a further expansion of the network.
Nio still runs Nio Houses in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and a hub in Breukelen, near Utrecht.
Retreat in Germany
The Dutch expansion contrasts with Germany, where Nio is shrinking its own network.
Nio will close its hubs in Cologne and Weiterstadt at the end of September, leaving Munich as its only hub in the country, and is directing German customers to partner workshops.
It closed its Hamburg Nio House in July, its first flagship closure in Europe.
Hamelink has been Regional Director for Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden since March, with full profit-and-loss ownership across the three markets, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He also remains General Manager of Nio Netherlands and of Firefly Netherlands, roles he took in April 2025, after joining the Dutch business in June 2022 as Head of Sales and Operations.
