Nio Group’s sub-brand Onvo registered 2,620 vehicles in China between September 8 and 14, according to insurance registration data shared this Tuesday.
After having reached an all time record with 4,100 vehicles sold in August, Onvo‘s sales declined to about 3,700 units in the last week of August and further to 2,650 vehicles in the first week of September.
Last week’s figures showed that weekly sales decreased for the third consecutive week, this time by only 30 units to 2,620.
The brand began deliveries of its second model, the three-row SUV L90, on the first day of August across over 40 cities in China.
In the second week of September, sales of the sub-brand remained above the main Nio marque, which it started outperforming seven weeks ago.
Nio sales represented 2,425 vehicles, while the most recent Firefly brand accounted for 1,124 units sold from September 8 to 14.
Onvo sales were divided between its L60 and L90 SUVs, which represented 570 and 2,050 units, respectively.
The L80, a five-seat version of the L90, was planned to be launched later this year. However, that target was delayed until early 2026.
Onvo‘s Head of Product Yu Bin told local media late last month that the company intends to first “serve L90 users well” before setting a new timeline for the L80.
The brand’s chief Fei Shen recently revealed that Onvo is planning a “facelift” for its debut L60 SUV “very soon.”
Over the weekend, the upcoming Onvo L60 was spotted in China being transported without camouflage.
The launch is reportedly planned for September 19, a day before Nio‘s annual event in Hangzhou, where the third-generation ES8 will be officially launched.
Shen had previously stated that the L60 and L90, though produced at two different factories, share the same equipment system.
The Onvo L90 was the sixth best-selling SUVs last week, with Tesla’s Model Y leading the ranking, securing 9,500 units.
However, the available data does not separate sales of the five-seat (Model Y) and six-seat versions (Model Y L). The model started being delivered in the first week of September.
In early August, Fei Shen, a long-time Nio executive and head of its sub-brand Onvo, publicly rejected claims from a Li Auto salesperson that “many” customers had canceled pre-orders for Onvo‘s newly launched L90 SUV in favor of a rival model.
Several heated exchanges between the two brands followed throughout the month.
On Monday, a Weibo user warned Nio that “many” Li Auto sales staff were rushing to arrange test drives and then flooding online comment sections with smear campaigns and hostile remarks.
Nio‘s Head of User Operations Yang Bo replies that the brand has been “monitoring this. Thank you for the reminder.”
