NIO Enters 3 New Markets with Native Distribution Companions

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• NIO will increase into Singapore, Uzbekistan, and Costa Rica between 2025 and 2026 by partnerships with native distributors, additional strengthening its international presence.
• The Firm will launch its first right-hand drive mannequin and make its debut within the American and Central Asian markets.
• The multi-brand technique that includes NIO, ONVO, and firefly permits broader consumer attain and extra diversified mobility options.
• Partnerships with main native distribution companions lay a strong basis for NIO’s international progress.

August 18, 2025, Shanghai — Right this moment, NIO introduced its plans to enter Singapore, Uzbekistan, and Costa Rica in 2025 and 2026, additional increasing its international footprint and bringing revolutionary, sustainable, premium sensible electrical autos to native customers.In Singapore, NIO will accomplice with Wearnes Automotive, a number one luxurious automotive retailer within the Asia-Pacific area. Established in 1906, Wearnes represents and retails a number of premium and luxurious marques, with deep experience in model constructing and delivering high-end experiences. Beginning in 2026, the 2 events will introduce its small, sensible high-end EV, firefly in Singapore, marking the launch of NIO’s first-ever right-hand drive mannequin.

In Costa Rica, NIO will accomplice with Horizontes Cielo Azul Movilidad, the nation’s largest electrical automobile distributor. Horizontes Cielo Azul Movilidad has a confirmed monitor report of constructing Chinese language automotive manufacturers to attain market leaders in Costa Rica. This partnership marks NIO’s first enterprise into the Americas.

In Uzbekistan, NIO will accomplice with Abu Sahiy Motors, a number one native group with sturdy market foundations, a broad presence throughout logistics, actual property, and automotive gross sales and providers, and a forward-looking imaginative and prescient of the trade. This marks NIO’s first step into the Central Asian automotive market.

These collaborations mark a brand new milestone in NIO’s international growth. “To speed up our entry into various international markets, NIO is partnering with skilled gamers who’ve deep native experience and in depth distributor networks. They are going to assist us introduce our high-quality sensible electrical autos to new markets extra effectively,” stated Chris Chen, Head of World Enterprise Improvement at NIO.

The preliminary providing in these new markets will function consultant fashions from NIO, ONVO, and firefly.

• Costa Rica: NIO EL8 (ES8 in China), EL6 (ES6 in China), ET5 Touring (ET5T in China), ONVO L60, and firefly.
• Uzbekistan: NIO EL8 (ES8 in China), EL6 (ES6 in China), ET5, ET5 Touring (ET5T in China), and ONVO L60.
• Singapore: the right-hand drive model of firefly.

Per NIO’s imaginative and prescient of constructing itself right into a consumer enterprise, the worldwide growth by way of distribution companions displays NIO’s unwavering dedication to its consumer enterprise philosophy. “NIO is very selective in selecting companions, making certain that their values align with our personal,” Chen added. “By way of shared imaginative and prescient, joint efforts, and mutual dedication to excessive requirements, we intention to ship experiences tailor-made to native customers.”

Because the starting of 2025, NIO has introduced partnerships with a number of nation basic distributors to steadily increase its international attain. With steady innovation in each know-how and consumer expertise, NIO is dedicated to delivering services and products past expectations, bringing sensible electrical autos to extra customers worldwide, and advancing its mission of Blue Sky Coming in the direction of a extra sustainable and brighter future.

About NIO

NIO is a world sensible electrical automobile firm based in November 2014. Devoted to shaping a sustainable and brighter future collectively by offering high-performance sensible electrical autos and distinctive consumer experiences, NIO is the primary automotive firm listed on the NYSE, HKEX and SGX. NIO at the moment has three main manufacturers below its umbrella: NIO, ONVO and firefly.

Ten years into institution, NIO is now one of many main corporations within the international premium sensible electrical automobile market, dedicated to fostering its personal analysis and improvement capabilities for core applied sciences. As of the tip of June 2025, the corporate had filed for and obtained over 9,900 patents. Moreover, NIO has developed NIO Full Stack, a set of 12 know-how domains.

At present, NIO has R&D facilities and manufacturing amenities in over 10 areas, together with Shanghai, Hefei, Beijing, Nanjing, San Jose, Munich, Oxford, Budapest, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. Moreover, it has constructed a gross sales and repair community throughout 10 international locations and areas, together with China, Europe, the Center East and the Higher Caucasus, serving customers in over 350 cities worldwide.

NIO Inc. at the moment gives 9 premium sensible electrical automobile fashions below the NIO model, two sensible electrical automobile below the ONVO model and one small, sensible, high-end electrical automobile below firefly model. As of July 31, 2025, NIO Inc. had delivered a complete of 806,731 autos, main the premium BEV phase priced above RMB 300,000.