The 3,605-kilometer NIO (09866) Silk Road battery swap route is now fully connected.

On September 26, 2026, Power UP 2026 NIO (09866) Power Day was held with battery swaps along the entire route between Dushanzi and Khorgos in Xinjiang. With the 4,125th NIO battery swap station entering operation at Sayram Lake, the NIO Silk Road battery swap route is now fully connected. The route starts in Xi'an, Shaanxi in the east and ends in Khorgos, Xinjiang in the west, spanning 3,605 kilometers, with 33 NIO battery swap stations deployed along the way. With the route fully connected, starting from any battery swap station nationwide, users can travel the entire journey via battery swaps to all provincial-level administrative regions in mainland China. The full connection of the NIO Silk Road battery swap route also marks the full battery swap connectivity of China's longest expressway, the G30 LianyungangKhorgos Expressway. As the core carrying trunk line of the Silk Road battery swap route, the G30 LianyungangKhorgos Expressway runs through the northwest, with a total length of 4,395 kilometers and 43 NIO battery swap stations deployed along the way. When NIO and ONVO users drive across this longest expressway in China, they can enjoy battery swaps along the entire route without interruption, experiencing convenience comparable to refueling. As of now, NIO has built 1,063 highway battery swap stations across the country, forming a "9 vertical, 11 horizontal, 16 major city clusters" highway battery swap network, covering more than 550 cities nationwide. The highway energy replenishment anxiety of NIO and ONVO users is declared over. For the full connection of the Silk Road battery swap route, NIO conducted acceptance inspections over consecutive days. From September 23 to 24, NIO co-founder and President Qin Lihong set out from Dunhuang, the endpoint of the Hexi Corridor section of the Silk Road battery swap route, and witnessed along the way the commissioning of two NIO battery swap stations at the Xingxingxia Service Area and Tiziquan Service Area on the G30 LianyungangKhorgos Expressway. The NIO battery swap station at Xingxingxia Service Area is the world's first zero-carbon off-grid solar-storage battery swap station. Overcoming hundreds of kilometers of no-man's land, it uses photovoltaics as its sole energy source and achieves 24-hour operation, making users' first stop upon entering Xinjiang more reassuring. From September 25 to 26, NIO founder, chairman, and CEO Li Bin, together with NIO co-founder and President Qin Lihong and others, set out from Urumqi and conducted an inspection with battery swaps along the entire route directly to Khorgos Port. On September 26, Li Bin launched a livestream for the full connection of the Silk Road battery swap route and Power UP 2026 NIO Power Day, visiting NIO battery swap stations and highway service areas along the route, witnessing the full connection of the Silk Road battery swap route, and ensuring that reliable battery swap service along the entire route can be provided to users during the upcoming National Day holiday. At the full connection ceremony of the NIO Silk Road battery swap route by Sayram Lake, NIO CFO and head of NIO Energy Qu Yu shared on site the latest layout of NIO's charging and battery swap network, the highway battery swap network, and progress in building Power Scenic Routes. By the end of 2026, a cumulative total of 100 Power Scenic Routes will be built. Self-driving routes that people aspire to travel, such as the Southern Xinjiang Western Extremity Route, the 331 Northern Border Route, the Ali North Route, and the Sichuan-Tibet North Route, will all have NIO charging and battery swap facilities deployed along the way, making charging as convenient as refueling. Li Bin said during the livestream that the Silk Road is not only a major corridor for culture, tourism, and commerce, but also an important scenario for testing the pure electric long-distance travel experience. He believes that with the Silk Road battery swap route opened up, the Xi'an-to-Khorgos trunk line will link with the broader network, allowing users to cross the Hexi Corridor and go deep into Xinjiang entirely via battery swaps, and to reach all provincial-level administrative regions in mainland China entirely via battery swaps, further improving the accessibility, certainty, and convenience of pure electric long-distance travel. On the same day, ONVO officially announced that it became a cultural tourism partner of Sayram Lake. NIO senior vice president and ONVO president Shen Fei delivered the brand's flagship model, the ONVO L90 "Starry Gold Radiance Design Package," to the Sayram Lake scenic area as a scenic area vehicle. In this in-depth collaboration between the two parties, ONVO owners can enjoy exclusive discounts on accommodation, dining, wedding photography, travel photography, and cultural creative products at Sayram Lake; newlyweds who register their marriage at the Sayram Lake Marriage Registration Center can also enjoy 3 months of free battery swaps (12 battery swap vouchers). For specific benefits, please refer to ONVO's official content. ONVO and Sayram Lake cultural tourism jointly created a new paradigm of "automotive + cultural tourism" collaboration, carrying out deep integration around cultural tourism activities, scenario co-creation, and more, opening a new path for two-way empowerment between the automotive and cultural tourism industries. As of September 26, 2026, NIO has deployed a cumulative total of 9,431 charging and battery swap stations nationwide, including 4,125 battery swap stations and 5,306 charging stations, ranking first in the industry in the number of charging and battery swap facilities built. The construction of NIO's charging and battery swap network has formed a large-scale network effect, bringing users the differentiated experience advantage of "charging as convenient as refueling," and has become an important DRIVE for NIO's product sales growth. The improvement of charging and battery swap facilities and the enhancement of product strength form a synergistic effect, driving the accelerated explosion of the pure electric market. Pure electric large three-row SUVs have ranked first among all powertrain types for 7 consecutive months and have surpassed extended-range for 12 consecutive months; the all-new ES8, in its first anniversary of launch, has cumulative deliveries of 150,000 units, firmly ranking first in sales in the large SUV and 400,000-yuan-class market; ES9 deliveries exceeded 30,000 units, ranking first in 500,000-yuan-class pure electric sales for three consecutive months; ONVO L90 delivered more than 60,000 units in its first year on the market, firmly holding the sales champion position in the 300,000-yuan-class pure electric large SUV segment.