Chinese language premium EV maker Nio has denied that it plans to determine a manufacturing facility in Europe as the corporate strikes to increase its automobile gross sales within the area past Norway.

Reviews stated Nio is planning a manufacturing base in Poland after a recruitment advert appeared on LinkedIn looking for an “EU plant operation supervisor.”

The advert stated the supervisor’s key tasks could be to “set up EU plant, to verify services, structure and functionality are effectively designed and put in.” The supervisor could be based mostly in Mazowieckie, Poland, the advert stated.

The advert was posted by a Chinese language recruitment marketing consultant based mostly in Shanghai and never by Nio straight.

In assertion to Automotive Information Europe, the automaker stated that: “at current Nio isn’t planning a producing website in Poland.”

Nio will start gross sales in Sweden on the finish of 2022, chief working officer Lihong Qin instructed the Swedish Dagens Industri in a narrative revealed on Monday.

Sweden will grow to be one in all 5 European international locations Nio will enter in 2022 following its European market debut in Norway in September.

Nio will start gross sales in Germany subsequent yr, beginning with its ET7 sedan. Nio at the moment sells the ES8 giant SUV in Norway with plans so as to add the ET7 sedan, ES6 SUV and associated coupe-styled EC6.

Nio is constructing 4 battery swap stations across the Norwegian capital of Oslo this yr, with 12 extra deliberate in different cities subsequent yr. The swaps are finished in three minutes as a faster various to charging.

Nio follows Tesla’s direct gross sales mannequin wherein clients purchase the automotive on-line. It is usually constructing multi-use showrooms in metropolis facilities known as Nio Home, with the primary already open in Oslo. The two,150 square-meter house has a restaurant, lounge seating, youngsters’s play space and convention rooms.

Success in Europe may immediate the corporate to provide domestically, Qin instructed Automotive Information Europe in 2020. “If we obtain excellent gross sales in different areas then possibly we may take into account native manufacturing sooner or later, however it’s nonetheless too early to say,” he stated.

Nio at the moment builds vehicles in Hefei, China in partnership with automaker JAC.