Nio Inc.’s family-oriented sub-brand Onvo plans to open pre-sales for the refreshed L60 SUV at the end of May, with the official market launch scheduled for June, the company’s founder and CEO William Li said on Sunday.
The 2026 L60 will follow the same two-trim structure already deployed across Onvo’s L90 and the recently unveiled L80.
One variant will be equipped with LiDAR sensors and Nio’s in-house Shenji NX9031 smart-driving chip, and another variant will use the Shenji chip without LiDAR.
The main brand of the group has been relying on LiDAR sensors since its inception with the Onvo launch in 2024, marking the first ever model launched with vision only technology.
Onvo‘s operating system Coconut that powers the brand’s EV models will also be offered in two versions for the refreshed model.
“From the exterior, there are quite a few changes with this refresh,” William Li said on Sunday. “The front fascia has become more dynamic, more stylish, and more youthful.”
The L60 facelift’s specifications were first revealed in China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in a regulatory catalogue published in March, which disclosed the LiDAR-equipped variant for the first time.
The exterior of the refreshed L60 brings several styling updates, with the executive describing the front fascia as more dynamic, more stylish, and more youthful than the current model.
The LiDAR Bet
In January, Onvo brand chief Fei Shen stated that while both the L60 and L90 would receive annual facelifts, only the L90 would gain a LiDAR-equipped version — with the L60 continuing to rely exclusively on a pure-vision sensor solution.
That position changed in March, when the MIIT catalogue confirmed a LiDAR-equipped L60 variant was in development.
The LiDAR addition pulls the L60 into closer alignment with the main Nio brand’s sensor strategy, which has used LiDAR as standard equipment across the lineup since launch.
The Shenji NX9031 chip — the world’s first 5-nanometre automotive-grade smart-driving processor, integrating more than 50 billion transistors and delivering over 1,000 TOPS of compute — first appeared in an Onvo vehicle with the revamped L90 launched on April 21.
That deployment marked the first time the Shenji chip migrated from the main Nio brand into a sub-brand vehicle.
The L60 facelift will be the second Onvo model to adopt the in-house silicon, replacing the Nvidia Orin-X chip currently used in the L60.
Incentives
The current L60 version continues to be offered with a slate of customer incentives, as stated by Li.
” (…) Our current model still has quite a few good policies,” the founder said. “Things like the seven-year zero-interest financing, purchase tax subsidies, which are also good value. The return [refund] portion is fully waived. Returns — for the purchase tax return, and there are also some trade-in programmes, some trade-in policies. Friends who want to buy in now can also take a look — and those who aren’t in a rush can also wait.”
Nio Inc.’s founder highlighted seven-year ultra-low-interest financing — a programme Onvo introduced earlier this year after Tesla rolled out similar terms across China.
Down payments under the financing scheme start from 29,900 yuan ($4,400) with monthly interest as low as 49 yuan.
Purchase tax subsidies of up to 10,262 yuan apply to the current L60, with a full purchase tax waiver also available on returns.
The current five-seat SUV starts at 149,900 yuan ($21,700) under Nio’s Battery-as-a-Service scheme — where customers rent the battery — and at 206,900 yuan ($29,900) with the battery included.
Li said buyers who want to purchase now can take advantage of the current incentives, while those who are not in a rush can wait for the refreshed model.
The Broader Refresh
The L60 facelift comes amid an overall product-refresh cycle for the Onvo brand.
Onvo unveiled the L80 in Beijing on April 28 — the five-seat version of the L90 — with pre-sales starting from 245,800 yuan ($36,100) for full-vehicle purchase, or 159,800 yuan ($23,500) under Nio’s Battery-as-a-Service scheme, undercutting Tesla‘s Model Y by 17,700 yuan on the full-purchase price.
The L80 will also be available in both pure-vision and LiDAR variants.
The 2026 L90, launched on April 21, was the first Onvo vehicle to adopt the Shenji NX9031 chip and LiDAR sensors.
The brand has been under pressure to recover from a difficult first quarter, when L60 deliveries fell below 2,000 units per month in January and February — the model’s worst monthly figures since deliveries began in September 2024.
L60 deliveries recovered to 3,517 units in March, helping push total Onvo deliveries to 6,877 vehicles, a 130.7% month-on-month surge.
In March and April, the brand returned to growth and posted a year over year jump of 43% and 22%, respectively.
Current L60 Specifications
The current Onvo L60 is built on Nio’s 900-volt high-voltage platform with a drag coefficient of 0.229 — which the company claimed in 2024 to be the lowest of any production SUV — and CLTC energy efficiency of 92.3%.
The model is offered with two battery options: a 60.6 kWh BYD FinDreams lithium iron phosphate pack good for up to 555 km of CLTC range, and an 85 kWh CALB pack good for up to 730 km.
Single-motor variants use a 240 kW rear motor; dual-motor variants add a 100 kW front motor.
The current L60’s smart-driving system uses an Nvidia Orin-X chip with 254 TOPS of compute, paired with multiple cameras and 4D imaging millimetre-wave radar but no LiDAR.
