NIO says plant able to resume normal production after temporary shutdown ends

Due to a shortage of semiconductors, NIO has decided to suspend car production activities at its Hefei plant for five working days from March 29. In response, the company said in an interview with the Beijing News that the plant will be able to resume its normal production pace after the temporary shutdown ends.

Despite the announcement that NIO would suspend production for five days next Monday, the NIO Hefei manufacturing plant was still in the process of ramping up production on the day of the March 26 announcement, the report said.

The report quoted sources as saying that employees in the plant had not heard the news of the shutdown, and that the production line was still in production on that day, and that there would be overtime production on March 27 and March 28.

“We were informed that the equipment renovation of the production line will be done next week along with the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday,” the report quoted the source as saying.

The Hefei plant’s recent maximum daily capacity is around 400 units, and the production line is not currently exposing parts shortages, the report said.

BREAKING: NIO suspends production for 5 working days due to semiconductor shortage