About us Founded in 2014, NIO is a global automotive company with world-class research and development, design, manufacturing centers and user service centers in Shanghai, Beijing, San Jose, Munich, London, and fourteen other locations. NIO has more than 6000 employees from nearly 40 countries. In 2016, NIO unveiled the fastest electric car in the world, the EP9. In 2017, NIO unveiled the vision car EVE and announced that the NIO EP9 set a new world speed record for an autonomous vehicle. NIO’s latest production car, the ES8, was officially launched on December 16, 2017.