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Onvo, the sub-brand of the EV maker Nio, has started road-testing its second model in China. The SUV will be launched in the third quarter of the year while the brand’s third model will follow in the final quarter of 2025, Nio founder and CEO William Li revealed late last year.
As reported in late January, a picture from an internal presentation shared on Weibo indicates that the brand has already completed trial production of the upcoming SUV.
In a newly shared image on Wednesday, the heavily camouflaged model is seen with a Firefly EV—Nio’s second sub-brand—closely following behind.
Although the name for the upcoming SUV was not yet revealed by the EV manufacturer, several bloggers in China claim Onvo will name it L80 as the SUV will be larger than Onvo’s first model, the L60.
Here’s a video of the model charging at a Tesla Supercharger station in China.
The family-oriented brand is set to launch two new SUV models this year after having launched the five-seat L60 last year. The three models are expected to be sold also in global markets such as the Middle East and North Africa region.
Sales Pressure
Onvo delivered 5,912 vehicles in January, well below its production capacity target of 16,000 units for the month. The company met its December target of 10,000 units and now aims to reach 20,000 in March.
Between February 10 and 16, the brand registered 900 units — data shared by the carmaker Li Auto showed on Tuesday. In December, and amid the traditional year-end sales push, the company was able to register 1,400, 1,700 and 2,100 vehicles in the first three weeks of the month scaling up to a new record of 4,200 units in the last week of the year.
Deliveries began last September, with the brand adding a new battery supplier in early December to tackle battery supply disruption, which limited deliveries in both October and November.