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