Nio

NIO Automobile was founded in November 2014 by William Li (Li Bin), a Chinese entrepreneur already known as the chairman of Bitauto and NextEV. His involvement in Formula E, the FIA’s all-electric racing series, gave him firsthand experience with high-performance electric technology and convinced him that electric mobility could be the future of transportation. Backed by investments from major Chinese and American firms such as Sequoia, Lenovo, and TPG, Li set out to build a new kind of automo...