On August 20th, Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of NIO, announced the NIO Energy Power Partner Plan at the 2024 NIO Power Day, opening up cooperation to the whole society for the construction of charging and swapping stations. According to Qin Lihong, there are three ways for NIO Energy's "power partner" to cooperate, namely charging station franchise, fixed income charging and swapping station, and charging and swapping station guarantee+sharing. The biggest risk of participating in NIO Energy's' Power Partner 'program is that NIO no longer exists, "said Qin Lihong.