Nio CEO William Li has built up a reputation as the Chinese Elon Musk, and his latest stunt certainly seems like he is on the right tracks.

Li and his car manufacturing company have developed a battery with a range of 1,000km, but seeing really is believing.

The CEO decided to put it to the test by driving for 14 hours on a single charge between two Chinese cities while live-streaming the event.

He got his stunt underway on December 17 going between Shanghai to Xiamen.

After his successful journey, he took to Chinese social media platform Weibo to express his gratitude at being able to make the long journey.

“The 150kWh battery life challenge was completed, with a final score of 1044 kilometers!" he said on a translated Weibo post about the stunt.

Let me tell you, after 14 hours and 1 minutes of hard work, the 150kWh battery life test reached a final score of 1044 kilometers with 3% power left."

He also explained that he was able to make the trip off one charge despite the adverse weather conditions.


https://www.unilad.com/technology/tesla-rival-electric-car-company-nio-battery-355014-20231229

Interesting. The future is electric car.

EVs are seeing a decline in purchase lately because of the meagre mileage from a single charge and paucity of charging points in remote areas.

Even Toyota has ditched the EV craze for hybrid cars.

With over 1k kilometres on a single charge, the Chinese are really pushing the frontier in battery technology.

Imagine owning this in Nigeria, good by to petrol, you can move and even do interstate travels