CATL Signs a Five-Year Strategic Cooperation Agreement with NIO

Recently, CATL and NIO signed a comprehensive and in-depth five-year strategic cooperation agreement in Hefei, Anhui Province.

The two parties will deepen cooperation across three major areas: technology, ecosystem, and market. Together, they will drive technological progress and business model innovation in the new energy vehicle industry, supporting Hefei's ambition to build a world-class new energy vehicle industrial cluster.

In terms of the technology, they will focus on joint R&D in long-life batteries and battery swap adaptation technologies, advance collaboration across multiple technical routes, and prioritize the implementation of new technologies, aiming to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of their products.

In ecosystem development, they will jointly promote the formulation of battery swap technology standards and the sharing of battery swap network resources, deepen synergy under business models such as Battery as a Service (BaaS), and work together to build an open and shared battery swap industrial ecosystem.

In the market domain, they will strengthen co-branding initiatives globally, jointly enhancing global market influence and share, and achieving comprehensive win-win outcomes from technology to brand.

The achievement of this strategic cooperation marks that NIO and CATL have stepped into a new phase of deep synergy across the entire ecosystem. Through an institutionalized and long-term cooperation framework, the two parties will work together to navigate industry changes and provide users with a safer, more efficient, and more sustainable electric travel experience.