Nio Group sold more than 10,000 vehicles in China during the week ended Nov. 2, the third straight week the Shanghai-based electric-vehicle maker exceeded that level.
The information was reported this Tuesday on Weibo, by CarFans platform founder Sun Shaojun, who noted that “order backlogs remain strong, so the current focus is on ramping up deliveries.”
In the past three months, Nio has consecutively reached a new delivery record.
The company reported over the weekend that deliveries surged 16.2% to 40,397 vehicles in October, up from 34,749 units in September.
Nio, Onvo and Firefly
The automotive blogger wrote that “Nio‘s sales continued to exceed 10,000 units last week, with Nio-branded models accounting for over 4,000 [units], Onvo around 4,500, and Firefly over 1,600.”
Weekly figures show a rebound in Nio sales since the ES8 launched, in mid-September.
In addition to the L90, the family-marketed sub-brand started deliveries of the facelifted Onvo L60 on October 27, five weeks after the model’s unveiling.
Sun Shaojun noted on Tuesday that the L90 SUV “achieved 33,348 deliveries in the first three months on the market,” while the Firefly model “reached 5,912 units in October.”
Previous Weekly Figures
Nio reached a weekly record of 10,800 units during the week of September 22–28.
The figures lowered to 6,400 units and 7,050 units in the following two weeks, as production and delivery were disrupted due to China’s Golden Week holiday at the beginning of the month.
Recently, as weekly insurance registration figures stopped being reported, only automotive bloggers are sharing figures from a few brands.
According to these sources, Nio had sold 10,600 units between October 13 and 20, and 10,300 from October 21 to 27.
Production Ramp-up
The company is increasing production at its three plants in Hefei, including a third plant that has just begun operations.
It aims to deliver 150,000 units across all three brands — Nio, Onvo, and Firefly — in the fourth quarter.
The third-row ES8 will be key to this result. At the launch event, the company said it expected to produce 40,000 ES8 units through the end of 2025.
One day later, the estimated delivery time stood at 24–26 weeks, indicating that orders on the first day alone far exceeded the company’s production capacity for the fourth quarter of the year.
Since last week, customers now face an “estimated delivery 22–23 weeks after configuration lock.”
Nio recently announced that it will increase the production capacity of the ES8 by 70% in November, aiming to reach 15,000 units in December.
According to Sun Shaojun’s post on Tuesday, the ES8 — which achieved its 10,000th delivery last week in just 41 days — set a record as “the fastest model priced above 400,000 yuan” ($56,170) to reach the mark.
In October, Nio is expected to have delivered more than 7,000 units of the updated model, after registering 2,803 units in September, according to China’s Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
