Chinese EV maker Nio signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hunan Provincial Police Association, with vehicles from all three of the company’s brands set to be incorporated into the provincial police force.
Hunan is a province in south-central China with over 65 million inhabitants, making it one of the country’s ten most populous.
The signing with Hunan’s Police comes a week after the Onvo L90, a three-row SUV under Nio‘s sub-brand, was selected for a police vehicle procurement project by the Provincial Public Security Bureau of Sichuan province.
The Shanghai-based Group shared on Monday images of the signing ceremony held in Changsha with the following text: “Hunan Province Police Association & NIO | ‘Benefit-the-Police’ Strategic Cooperation Signing Ceremony.”
Nio did not immediately respond when questioned about further details of the agreement.
Previous Police Fleet Integrations
Previously, the Nio ES6 — an entry level SUV of the brand — and the Firefly debut model have also been included in other cities.
In mid 2025, Firefly‘s debut model was adopted by China’s Urban Management Enforcement authorities and added to the fleet of the municipal authority of Anhui province — where Nio‘s manufacturing footprint is located in the capital city of Hefei.
Four years ago, Nio delivered eight ES6 vehicles to the Laoshan District of Qingdao in Shandong province.
Changsha Connection
The latest deal in Changsha comes also less than a year after Nio‘s energy unit — Nio Power — signed cooperation agreements with Changsha Economic Development Group, Jining High-Tech Holding, and Yunnan Communications Investment Group.
The agreements outlined plans to jointly build integrated “solar-storage-charging-swapping” stations in highway service areas in Hunan and Yunnan provinces, as well as to construct 50 battery swap stations across Shandong province.
After building its swapping and charging network independently since 2018, Nio began signing deals with partners in late 2024 to build stations across China, aiming to lower the investment required to deploy each facility.
Nio is set to roll out its one-millionth mass-produced vehicle on Tuesday at its F2 factory in Hefei — seven and a half years after producing the first one.
The company delivered 997,592 vehicles as of December 31 across its three brands — Nio, Onvo, and Firefly — and reached a new monthly record in the final month of 2025.
