First Firefly EVs delivered in Europe

As announced, Nio’s Firefly brand has begun delivering its compact electric cars in Europe. The first handovers took place at Nio branches in Utrecht in the Netherlands and in Oslo and Stavanger in Norway.

Nio has not yet issued an official statement on the first European Firefly deliveries. However, the portal Electric Vehicles claims to have learned of the first handovers in Utrecht. This matches both Nio’s earlier announcement and information available to our editorial team. In Norway, the first units of the small electric car are also reportedly in customers’ hands. It remains unclear how many vehicles Firefly has delivered in this initial wave.

In the Netherlands, the Firefly starts at €29,900, while in Norway prices begin at 279,900 NOK – currently equivalent to around €23,500. The lower price in Norway is not just due to local tax regulations: as the country is not part of the EU, it does not impose the additional tariffs on Chinese-built electric cars that apply within the European Union.

In both markets, the model comes with a purchased battery, as Firefly’s Battery-as-a-Service offer is not currently available in Europe due to the lack of suitable swap stations. Firefly’s small EVs use a 42.1-kWh battery, while larger Nio models in Europe are offered with 75 or 100 kWh packs – the company’s existing Power Swap Stations are designed for those capacities. In China, some stations have already been retrofitted, and the vehicle has been on sale there since late April.

The Firefly is a four-metre-long, fully electric compact car. With its 42.1-kWh LFP battery, it achieves a WLTP range of 330 kilometres, or up to 470 kilometres in WLTP City. The pack can be charged at DC stations with up to 100 kW, with a standard 10-to-80 per cent charging session taking 29 minutes.

Pricing for Germany has not yet been confirmed, though it is expected to start at around €30,000, as in the Netherlands. According to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority’s registration statistics, one Firefly was registered in Germany in June, and none in July. This was likely a Nio demo vehicle, as customer deliveries in Germany are not set to begin until autumn.

In Norway, Nio registered a total of seven Firefly units in the past six weeks, according to data from the portal EU-EVs. In the Netherlands, Electric Vehicles reports six registrations in June, with test drives for prospective buyers available since early July.

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This article was first published by Sebastian Schaal for electrive’s German edition.