On the last day of 2021, NIO's second "cow house" in Chongqing was completed, which is NIO's 37th "cow house". In fact, on this day, taizhou Yongning's "cow house" also opened at the same time, weilai on the last day of this year, has 28 cities around the world, has 38 "cow houses".
The official name of "Cow House" is Weilai Center, and there are two Weilai Centers in Chongqing, one in Raffles City Chaotianmen And the newly built one in Longhu Park Tianjie in Central Park. The "Cow House" has the function of product display and sales, as well as interaction with customers.
In addition to these two cattle houses, NIO currently has 5 WEILAI spaces in Chongqing, as well as two large service centers. According to reports, in 2022, WEILAI plans to add another WEILAI space in Chongqing MixC and build another service center in the third quarter.
Compared with the actual reception volume, the substation has 10 times the redundancy
But what satisfies Chongqing's customers the most is that Chongqing's Weilai substations have increased from 4 last year to 15, and the number of stations has increased by nearly 4 times. This is almost synchronous with the speed of Nio's construction of substations in the country, with 172 SUB stations in 2020, and by the end of 2021, it has reached 777, and next year's plan is to exceed 1300.
Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of Weilai, said when talking about the replacement power station, the second generation of the replacement power station can receive 312 times of power exchange models per day, and the current average reception of each replacement power station is 30 times, with about 10 times of redundancy, and Weilai's supporting facilities in the replacement point are deployed in advance. He also revealed that WEILAI is currently planning to deploy the third generation of substations, which are characterized by modular assembly and will be able to better adapt to local conditions.
Qin Lihong's forward-looking and determination in the construction of the replacement power station is highly consistent with the idea of "adding electricity more convenient than refueling" at the recent Suzhou NIO Day, the founder and chairman of Weilai said.
This has also been recognized by some Weilai car owners, some car owners said in an interview with the upstream news reporter that Weilai to change the electricity, plus the time to drive in and replace the battery, it takes about 6 minutes, people do not need to get off, very convenient. He is even more accustomed to changing the battery at present, rather than using the method of home charging. According to the owner of the car, there is not a minority of Weilai car owners who have this habit.
Let the customer already have the car, will continue to grow
From january to November, the sales data of new forces ranked first with 82,000 units, Weilai ranked second with 80,000 units, and the ideal 76,000 units ranked third.
However, from the perspective of model layout, Weilai is more complete in the entire new power brand, in addition to SUVs such as ES8, ES6, EC6, etc., there will be ET7 and ET5 models delivered this year.
It is understood that in terms of production capacity, THE SECOND PLANT OF WEILAI will be officially put into operation in the third quarter of 2022, with a planned vehicle production capacity of 1 million vehicles / year, which will be 10 times that of the first plant. At the same time, the second plant also plans a battery production capacity of 100GWh/year.
For the two major problems that may restrict the development of new forces: model planning and capacity layout, from this point of view, they are not the bottlenecks of Weilai's development.
When talking about the cliff sales of only more than 3,000 units in October, Qin Lihong said that Weilai does not do missing material deliveries, and must wait until all chips and accessories are complete before starting production and delivery. He also revealed that it is expected that before the 2022 Beijing Auto Show, hardware upgrades will be carried out on the models that have been sold, so that the cars that customers have already arrived will continue to grow, which is rare in the world, so Weilai has made a long preparation for this.
When the upstream reporter asked how to view Weilai's performance this year, Qin Lihong commented that he was generally satisfied, but he said that what everyone saw was superficial data, and a lot of the work done this year had not been fully demonstrated during the year, and in the near future, Weilai would bring more surprises.