Vehicle
NIO ES8
The seven-seat SUV the marque launched with, and the first vehicle built around its battery-swap architecture — which is the single fact that changes how it must be diagnosed. The pack is a serviceable, exchangeable unit rather than a structural fixture, so on a Battery-as-a-Service car the pack currently fitted may have no history with the vehicle at all: cycle count, state of health and thermal history belong to the pack, not the VIN, and reading them tells you nothing about how this car has been used. A degradation complaint is therefore often resolved by a swap rather than by a repair. The swap interface itself — its latches, alignment sensors and high-voltage connectors — is a wear item with its own fault set that no fixed-pack EV has.
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Generations
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First generation 2018–present
Battery swap means the fitted pack's history is not the car's; the swap interface latches and connectors are their own wear item.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- NIO NP1
- Engines
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- 75 kWh electric — electric · standard range, swappable
- 100 kWh electric — electric · long range, swappable
- Transmissions
- Single-speed reduction · 1-speed direct-drive reduction
- Drivetrain
- Four-wheel drive
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