NIO Deliveries Rise 58% in February — Charts

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NIO had quite a solid sales month in February despite the country as a whole being in a down moment for EV sales. The company had 20,797 vehicle deliveries, which was 57.6% more than the 13,192 vehicle deliveries of February 2025.

From birth to now, NIO has reached 1,045,571 cumulative vehicle deliveries.

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The company didn’t really have anything else to say about the month of February in its vehicle sales update. However, it had a couple of other updates in the past few days.

“Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced its 2025 list of National Green Factories. NIO’s advanced manufacturing factories have been officially recognized as the National Green Factories for their outstanding performance in green management across the product life cycle,” the company wrote yesterday.

“The National Green Factories selection is a core initiative in China’s dual-carbon strategy and the development of a green manufacturing system. In accordance with the Interim Measures for Gradient Cultivation and Management of Green Factories, enterprises undergo a months-long rigorous evaluation across five dimensions: land intensification, harmless raw materials, clean production, waste resource utilization, and low energy carbonization.

“This recognition marks the transformation of NIO’s advanced manufacturing factories from energy consumers into contributors to environmental sustainability in their manufacturing operations, making them a benchmark for the automotive industry’s green transformation.”

It is a notable and impressive feat indeed, especially in a time when so many are looking to go backwards on environmental and climate initiatives.

NIO shared more on what makes its factories so special and green as well: “NIO’s advanced manufacturing factories embedded a low-carbon ethos into every aspect of their infrastructure and processes from the very start. By implementing a comprehensive energy-and-carbon management system, the factories enable real-time monitoring and intelligent optimization of energy use, reducing per-vehicle energy consumption and carbon intensity while maintaining production efficiency. Guided by circular economy principles, the factories have established high-standard water recycling and industrial solid waste reuse systems that convert production waste into renewable resources, significantly lowering reliance on virgin materials. In core vehicle manufacturing stages such as painting and welding, the factories employ environmentally friendly processes that have dramatically cut emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).”

The company is clearly committed to being a sustainability leader, as it reiterated in multiple ways throughout the news announcement.

Getting back to sales, comparing with XPENG, which has its own unique story but has always tracked more or less with NIO (sometimes above it, sometimes below it), NIO is in a brighter moment right now. Its February sales were higher, and they were up (58%, as noted above) rather than down year over year. However, if tracking these companies for several years has taught me anything, XPENG will rebound and climb above NIO again in time, and then they will continue leapfrogging each other from time to time.