CnEVPost Newsletter: NIO's swap stations reach 600; BYD sold 81,040 NEVs in Oct

NIO's battery swap stations reach 600 - CnEVPost — cnevpost.com In the past seven months, NIO has added 400 battery swap stations, twice the total number built in the past three years.

XPeng adds new version to its flagship sedan P7 - CnEVPost To date, the XPeng P7 offers 480km, 562km, 586km, 670km and 706km NEDC range options, with a total of 15 versions available.

Tesla exec says rumors of EV maker's second factory site in China untrue - CnEVPost Rumors have recently surfaced on the Internet that Tesla may build its second Gigafactory in China in Qingdao.

BYD sold 81,040 NEVs in Oct, up 249% from a year earlier - CnEVPost From January to October, BYD's NEV sales were 418,600 units, up 212 percent from the same period last year.

BYD says it has 9,963 orders for its Dolphin model in Oct - CnEVPost Dolphin, the first model of BYD's e platform 3.0 as well as the Ocean series, sold 3,000 units in September.

Evergrande's Hengchi 5 reportedly in trial production - CnEVPost The Hengchi 5 is complete with basic features and is just short of a road-access permit for mass production.

Zeekr delivered 199 vehicles in Oct, its first delivery month - CnEVPost As deliveries of the Zeekr 001 begin, the company is also facing an ongoing PR crisis, demonstrating how hard it is for EV makers to really get customers in China.

Wuling Hongguang Mini EV sold 47,834 units in Oct, up 101% year-on-year - CnEVPost SAIC-GM-Wuling's three models of the GSEV architecture sold a total of 51,081 units in October, up 112 percent from a year ago.

Expert expects China's NEV penetration to exceed 20% by 2022 - CnEVPost The secretary-general of the CPCA said that with the supply of chips still uncertain in 2022, traditional carmakers will prioritize their limited resources for NEV models.