NIO partners with Nvidia on next-gen electric vehicle tech

  • NIO announced that it will use Nvidia 's DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip for its new generation of electric and autonomous vehicles
  • At its annual day event, NIO revealed its ET7 sedan and the Nvidia DRIVE Orin-powered supercomputer, dubbed Adam, which will first appear in the vehicle that will ship in China starting in 2022
  • Nvidia Orin is called the world's highest-performance AV and robotics processor. The scalable supercomputer-on-a-chip family delivers an unprecedented 254 trillion operations per second
  • The flagship ET7 is a high-performance vehicle that accelerates from zero to 100km in only 3.9 seconds. It also features a new 150kw battery for extended mileage range.
  • Investors have really rallied behind NIO the last couple of months sending its share price through the roof. Despite delivering only 43,728 vehicles last year, NIO has a market cap over $90Bn vs $60Bn for General Motors