Both Nio and Xpeng reach 10,000 units monthly delivery milestone

Nio said on Friday its global deliveries more than doubled in September as it completed the first batch of deliveries in Norway.

Nio delivered 10,628 vehicles globally during the month, a jump of 125.7% year-over-year and also an all-time high for the company that was struggling to register growth in deliveries in the last few months. This represents an 80.7% month-on-month rise in deliveries for Nio.

The monthly delivery split for the Shanghai-headquartered electric vehicle maker was 1,978 six-seater and seven-seater ES8 SUVs, 5,260 five-seater ES6s and 3,390 five-seater EC6 coupe models.

Rival Xpeng Inc delivered 10,412 vehicles in September, a jump of 199% year-over-year and a 44.3% sequential rise.

Deliveries in September were lifted by P7 electric sports sedan volumes at 7,512 units. The company delivered 2,656 G3 and G3i smart SUVs as well as 244 P5 smart family sedans which were launched a few weeks ago.

Xpeng started shipping electric vehicles to Norway last year and is eyeing further expansion in Europe.

For the quarter overall, NIO delivered 24,439 vehicles and Xpeng clocked in a record 25,666 deliveries.

With its Norway debut, Nio joins rival Xpeng in shipping electric vehicles to Europe. Nio on Thursday unveiled the pricing for its sports utility vehicle ES8 in Norway, lower than that of China, its home turf where it produces the vehicles.