# Nio Energy Reports Over 2 Million Battery Swaps and Charges During 2026 National Day Holiday Nio Energy released its 2026 National Day holiday user charging report on October 9, reporting more than 2 million battery swap and charging services from 9,567 stations during the October 1–7 period, with single-day battery swaps reaching a record 183,664 on October 5\. By China EV Signal Published: 2026-10-09T13:58:16.775Z Updated: 2026-10-09T13:58:16.778Z Canonical article: https://chinaevsignal.com/news/nio-energy-2026-national-day-holiday-charging-report ## Key takeaways - Nio Energy's 9,567 battery swap and charging stations provided over 2 million services to Nio, Onvo and Firefly users during the October 1–7 holiday period\. - Highway battery swap and charging volume reached over 24\.83 million kWh from October 1–7, up 30\.8% year-on-year and accounting for 13\.7% of China's total highway charging volume\. - Single-day battery swaps hit a record 183,664 on October 5, following 183,469 on October 1, with an average of one vehicle completing a swap and departing every 0\.47 seconds\. ## Holiday Charging and Swap Volume Nio Energy's 9,567 battery swap and charging stations across China provided over 2 million battery swap and charging services during the 2026 National Day holiday, according to the company's user charging report released on October 9\. The data covers Nio, Onvo and Firefly brands and the period from October 1 to October 7\. Highway battery swap and charging volume reached 24,837,085 kWh during October 1–7, up 30\.8% year-on-year and accounting for 13\.7% of China's total highway battery swap and charging volume, based on National Energy Administration data on National Day holiday highway new energy charging\. The company's 250 highway battery swap stations set a single-day swap record during the period\. ## Record Single-Day Battery Swaps Nio Energy reported consecutive record single-day battery swap totals during the holiday, with October 1 \(outbound peak\) reaching 183,469 swaps and October 5 \(return peak\) reaching 183,664 swaps, the highest ever recorded\. On average, one vehicle completed a battery swap and departed every 0\.47 seconds\. The holiday period saw 1,192,221 battery swap services, up 22% year-on-year\. Nio's 4,168 battery swap stations and 9,567 combined swap and charging stations together delivered 2,071,582 services, a daily average increase of 20\.5% over the same period last year\. Nio's 1,073 highway battery swap stations saved users 309,124 hours of charging wait time, calculated at 60 minutes per charge, with the time saved up 14\.7% year-on-year\. ## User Travel and Highway Network Nio, Onvo and Firefly users drove a cumulative total of over 714 million kilometers during the holiday\. A total of 127,542 users drove more than 500 kilometers in a single day, up 74\.6% year-on-year; 197,684 users drove over 1,000 kilometers cumulatively, up 65\.1%; and 287,306 users traveled across provinces\. A total of 203,581 users relied entirely on battery swaps for long-distance travel\. The 1,073 highway battery swap stations connect more than 550 cities nationwide\. From any battery swap station in China, users can complete an all-swap journey to every provincial-level administrative region in mainland China\. The busiest highway battery swap station during the holiday was at the G15 Shenhai Expressway Rizhao Service Area toward Shenyang, with a single-day peak of 211 swaps\. It was followed by the G1523 Yongguan Expressway Toubao Service Area toward Dongguan in Fuzhou, Fujian, at 200 swaps per day, and the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway Longhushan Service Area toward Shanghai in Yingtan, Jiangxi, at 196 swaps per day\. The busiest highway battery swap networks were the G15 Shenhai Expressway network with 53 stations and a single-day peak of 3,831 swaps; the G3 Beijing-Taipei Expressway network with 45 stations and 2,356 swaps; and the G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway network with 37 stations and 2,308 swaps\. ## Charging Network and Battery Services Nio's 5,399 charging stations and 31,091 charging piles are open to all new energy vehicle users\. On October 3 at 11:08:41, Nio's cumulative charging services surpassed 100 million, with 86\.69% of charging volume serving users of brands other than Nio\. Nio offered 14,397 flexible battery upgrade services during the holiday, and 3,692 users shared long-range battery packs\. ## Scenic Routes and Silk Road Battery Swap Route Nio's 92 charging scenic routes provided more than 131,526 battery swap and charging services during the holiday\. The most popular routes were the Great Wall Line at a single-day peak of 2,825 swaps and charges, the Shandong Peninsula Loop at 1,276, and the Guilin Landscape Loop at 863\. On September 26, Nio's Silk Road battery swap route opened along its full length, running from Xi'an, Shaanxi in the east to Khorgos, Xinjiang in the west\. The route spans 3,605 kilometers and includes 33 battery swap stations\. Nio plans to build a cumulative total of 100 charging scenic routes in 2026\. ## County-Level and Cumulative Network Growth Nio battery swap stations cover more than 1,300 districts and counties across China, with 10 provincial-level administrative regions, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hainan and Anhui, achieving county-level battery swap coverage\. County battery swap volume rose 144\.2% period-on-period during the holiday\. The busiest county battery swap stations were Fuzhou Pingtan Municipal Garden Wanjing Road at 130 swaps per day, Anqing Yuexi Wenquan Avenue at 122, Zhuzhou Chaling Hongtai Hospital at 109, and Ningde Xiapu Economic Development Zone at 109, with tied rankings\. The counties with the highest battery swap growth were Dongming County in Heze, Shandong at 620%; Dechang County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan at 500%; and Huan County in Qingyang, Gansu at 491%\. ## Cumulative Network Scale As of October 9, 2026, Nio Energy has built a cumulative total of 9,567 battery swap and charging stations and 4,168 battery swap stations across China, providing over 227 million cumulative battery swap and charging services and over 127 million cumulative battery swap services\. Its 1,073 highway battery swap stations form a 9-vertical, 11-horizontal, 16-major-city-cluster highway battery swap network connecting more than 500 cities, and its 5,399 charging stations and 31,091 charging piles have delivered over 100 million charging services\. ## Company coverage - [NIO news](https://chinaevsignal.com/manufacturers/nio) ## Original publisher 蔚来. Published: 2026-10-09T02:00:00.000Z