While oil prices and range anxiety dominate Western EV headlines, Nio’s battery-swap system in China keeps reaching new milestones that prove the technology can rival a traditional refueling infrastructure at scale, performing 1.2 million battery swaps over the holiday.

Nio kicked off this year busting record after record, posting six-figure swap numbers during the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and marking the third such record for Nio in as many days – but the company hasn’t stoped there. New reports indicate the company broke those impressive records again, performing nearly 1.2 million swaps over the National Day celebrations last week.

The Chinese EV brand’s ~4,100 battery swap stations completed 1,192,221 consumer battery swaps from October 1st to 7th, with a daily average nearly 22% higher than the year prior according to a holiday charging and battery swap report released on Friday.

And, from everything we can see, Nio’s swap stations handled the day with exactly the sort of high-tech precision we’ve come to expect from the brand that claims battery swapping, not increasingly faster charging, is the right solution for road tripping travelers.

Highway travelers accounted for a substantial share of the holiday week’s battery swap demand – and, when measured in terms of energy, that demand was substantial. More than 24.83 million kWh of electricity were turned into efficient, zero-emission travel.

Despite a number of early EV adopters with an overdeveloped concept of ownership, battery swap technology has proven to be both extremely effective and extremely positive to the overall EV ownership experience.

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