NIO Full Stack
NIO Full Stack embodies NIO's value of continuous innovation and is fundamental to NIO as a smart EV company that operates globally, develops for the long term and leads in technological innovation. NIO has envisioned itself a pioneer at the forefront of smart electric vehicles, user enterprise and global operations, and has established full-stack capabilities in 12 areas for smart EV technologies, service and user community operations, as well as multi-brand development across different regions.
Full-Stack R&D Capabilities
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Patents Filed and Obtained
Chip & Smart Hardware
To continue to lead in smart EVs and reduce the dependence on core technologies, NIO has been making continuous investment in developing its in-house R&D capabilities of smart hardware, such as advanced chips, high-performance sensors, smart domain controllers and other core components.
NIO Super Sensing
33
High-Performance Sensing Units
- 1 × Ultralong-Range High-Resolution LiDAR Sensor
- 7 × 8MP High-Resolution Camera
- 4 × 3MP Enhanced Camera for Surround View
- 1 × Advanced Driver Monitoring System (ADMS)
- 5 × Millimeter-Wave Radar
- 12 × Ultrasonic Sensor
- 1 × GPS and IMU
- 1 × V2X
NIO Super Computing
1,016Tops
Highest on Production Vehicles
4x
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin X
10x
Faster Backbone Neural Network
SA8295P
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Smart Cockpit Chip
NIO's First AD Chip
NX9031
Performance on par with four flagship chips
Over 500billion
Transistors in a Single Chip
6.5x
Better than Transformer Models
8533Mbps
LPDDR5x Rate
NIO's LiDAR SoC
NX6031
The industry's first in-house developed LiDAR SoC, able to handle complicated driving conditions.
8million
Max. Point Cloud Processing Capability
50%
Power Consumption Reduced
30%
Processing Latency Optimized
NIO Assisted and Intelligent Driving (NAD)*
NIO has established the end-to-end R&D system of assisted and intelligent driving technologies, covering platform, architecture, engineering, algorithms and operations.
Unifying scenarios, functions, as well as map and mapless solutions, and taking into considerations both single-car intelligence and crowdsourcing intelligence, NAD has comprehensively covered battery swapping, parking, highway and urban road scenarios. Thanks to the largest cloud-vehicle computing power in the industry, NIO delivers to each user pleasant and reassuring driving experience from point A to B in all scenarios.
Navigate on Pilot Plus (NOP+)
More pleasant travel experience from point A to B for all users, and in all scenarios.
Total Distance Traveled With NAD
Mileage Available With NOP+
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Smart Cabin
Adding a human touch to its state-of-the-art technologies, NIO's smart cabin, running on the in-house developed SkyOS, is a mobile living space, a thoughtful emotion companion, bringing together NIO's iconic products, services and user community.
Pioneering Architecture
NIO's smart cabin comes with the Qualcomm's cockpit chip SA8295P that doubles the AI computing power. Thanks to NIO's pioneering architecture developed in house, the computing power is shared between smart cabin and assisted and intelligent driving, allowing for a in-vehicle heterogeneous computing cluster.
NOMI, Your Emotion Companion
NOMI is the world's first in-car AI companion. Free of wake words, NOMI understands dozens of commands in one shot and can converse with all occupants. The newly released NOMI GPT allows NOMI to provide more personalized and thoughtful services.
Unrivaled Full-Sensory Immersive Experience
The 7.1.4 Surround Sound System with Dolby Atmos provides unmatched sound effect. The one-of-a-kind N-Box Enhanced Infotainment Console and AR goggles born for the car bring about an immersive experience equivalent to watching a 201-inch 3D display.
Smart and Exclusive Services
Navigation and the EV recharging network are integrated for the best route planning. Vehicle issues can be fixed without having to get off the car as the exclusive service group can be called upon through the center display. Every trip is worry-free.
NIO Link
NIO Link is a car-centric and all-scenario connectivity solution. It enables mobile connectivity experiences that are fully secure and open by integrating software, hardware, and services while achieving end-road-cloud coordination. Seamless synchronization of services is realized across devices including the in-car displays, smart phone, and AR glasses.
Vehicle-Phone Connectivity
NIO Phones and NIO vehicles work together perfectly through NIO Link, unlocking brand-new vehicle-centered experiences with all-scenario connectivity and seamless synchronization.
All-New NIO PhoneFull-Domain Vehicle Operating System
SkyOS is an AI-powered full-domain operating system for smart EVs. As the world's first OS developed by a car company, SkyOS is based on a 1+4+N architecture, covering all vehicle domains, such as assisted and intelligent driving, smart cabin and vehicle control.
More specifically, SkyOS features high-performance SkyOS-H, which is a versatile and reliable virtualized pool of hardware resources, SkyOS-L, M, R and C, which are four major kernels designed to support a variety of application scenarios, SkyOS-Middleware with the in-house developed SOA framework and TOX (Talks-Over-X) protocol stack of low latency and high bandwidth and for all domains, as well as a systematic information security mechanism enhanced by closed-loop data and capable of continuous iteration.
Vehicle Engineering
Facing fast iterations of smart electric vehicles, NIO has formed an experience-driven product R&D system featuring decoupled software and hardware, balancing vehicle personalization and platform efficiency. With innovation capabilities at the atomic level and in-house development of core components, NIO realizes efficient deployment of multiple brands and models across the globe.
China's First Proprietary Intelligent Chassis Controller (ICC)
A holistic design and tuning of chassis comfort and handling with integrated control of redundant braking, air spring, and damper. It eliminates thresholds in development and tuning for expedited vehicle development and iterations through OTA updates.
SkyRide Intelligent Chassis System
Integrating core hardware systems of steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering, and fully active suspension for the first time to make the world’s only intelligent chassis fully steered by wire.
SkyRide Intelligent Chassis System
Integrating core hardware systems of steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering, and fully active suspension for the first time to make the world’s only intelligent chassis fully steered by wire.
AI-Powered Smart Chassis
Based on multiple sensors on the vehicle and bump layer data in the cloud, NIO's AI Smart Chassis connects domains of intelligent chassis, assisted and intelligent driving, and digital cockpit to detect road bumps in advance, for a more comfortable and reassuring riding experience.
SkyRide Intelligent Chassis System
Integrating core hardware systems of steer-by-wire, rear-wheel steering, and fully active suspension for the first time to make the world’s only intelligent chassis fully steered by wire.
Battery System
With six tech labs dedicated to advanced materials, physicochemical testing, and other purposes, NIO possesses full-stack R&D capabilities covering material synthesis, cell trial production, system assembly, and validation and testing. In fields such as materials, cells, systems, software, and cloud strategy, it has 1,435 scientific and technological patents.
150kWh Ultra Long Range Battery
The 150kWh battery pack comes with a cell energy density of 360Wh/kg and a pack volume utilization of 77%. It is the world's only cell-to-pack pouch battery free from thermal runaway.
CLTC Range
Industry's First Long-Life Battery Solution
Based on full-stack development of battery technology and lifecycle battery health operations, the long-life battery can be in service for 15 years and retain no lower than 85% battery capacity at the end of its life.
Molecular-level control over multiple elements to suppress phase transition in NCM cathode materials.
Unused NCM cathode materials
8 years in use: cracks in materials
8 years in use: modified properties of materials with additional Zr
* Accelerated aging test at 60°C
Industry's First Proprietary 46105 Large Cylindrical Cell
EDS & HV System
NIO's global R&D footprints allow it to master the full-domain technology of electric drive and high-voltage systems, covering eight core areas: system development, power electronics, power semiconductors, mechanical design, motor development, software, testing and manufacturing. Its comprehensive and digitized R&D management system ensures that these capabilities can be translated into products faster.
Full-Domain 900V High-Voltage Architecture
Electric Drive System
180kW EDS
Powered by the world's first SiC power module and the flat wire permanent magnet motor, this highly-integrated system boosts the maximum current by 30% and lowers the energy loss by 4% to 6%, realizing an operating efficiency of no lower than 91.5%.
210kW EDS
This integrated system boasts a high-performance flat wire permanence magnet motor with a copper slot fill rate of over 70%, realizing a system power density as high as 2.5kW/kg.
180kW EDS
The induction motor system boasts a power density of 2.6kW/kg.
Proprietary 1,200V SiC Power Module
This in-house developed power module has a power density of 1,315kW/L and a lifespan of over 300,000 cycles.
Smart Manufacturing
Intelligent and digital training allows for agile production and high-quality delivery. From manufacturing engineering to order management and product delivery, the operating platform of processes and algorithms becomes an exceptional atomic capability set, formulating a closed-loop iteration system for smart manufacturing.
Highlights
Advanced equipment, flexible process, end-to-end intelligence, efficiency and low-carbon footprint along the value chain.
NIO Factory Two
As a digitized smart factory, NIO F2 strikes a balance between mass production and customization, making itself a model of the next-generation smart automotive manufacturing.
Smart Power
NIO provides a holistic power solution that serves users in various scenarios, making EV recharging more convenient than refueling. Its automated battery swap, high-power charging, grid interactions, battery monitoring based on multi-source sensing, a series of innovative charging and swapping products, as well as Power Cloud, allow for a chargeable, swappable, and upgradeable experience for users.
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Artificial Intelligence
NIO aims to develop the full-stack AI capabilities. Through in-house built AI infrastructure, self-trained foundation models and vertical models, as well as the development platform and tools developed in house, NIO has integrated AI into its products, services, user community, R&D and manufacturing.
As AI has been used throughout the entire process, including product definition, R&D, manufacturing, experience improvement and service operations, NIO’s NAD, NOMI, digital operations and industrialization, as well as public LLMs are further enhanced, allowing for continuous iteration in R&D, services and operations.
Global Digital Operations
The capability supports efficient global operations while making sure NIO can navigate data governance and compliance. With systematic operations of users and communities, products, employees, channels and content across different regions and countries, for multiple brands and on various technology platforms, NIO can provide products and services to more users worldwide.
NIO's self-built computing center and hybrid cloud architecture, as well as LLMs and algorithms, allow it to realize efficient R&D on multiple platforms, global supply chain management, smart manufacturing, and global operations of users, communities and services.
* NIO Assisted and Intelligent Driving (NAD) is designed for driver assistance only and cannot fully replace a human driver or handle all possible traffic, weather, and road conditions. The driver must stay attentive and be prepared to take over control at all times. NAD should be used with caution in complicated traffic, weather or road conditions. * Certain NAD features are currently only available in China.
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