Nio Stock Climbs On Biggest Electric SUV Tease Yet Ahead Of Launch This Week

• Shares of Nio were up marginally in New York premarket trading.
• Pricing information for the ES9 model is yet to be revealed.
• The launch comes after the company announced impressive Q1 delivery numbers.

Shares of Nio were climbing 0.3% premarket on the NYSE early Tuesday after the Chinese EV maker teased its biggest premium SUV, the ES9, ahead of its launch event on April 9.

The company will announce the pre-sales price and technical details at the upcoming event. The ES9 video teases the car's interior and lighting details. On April 1, CEO William Li tweeted saying they would kick off “a big wave” of new product launches.

The new model will be the largest pure-electric SUV in China, said Yang Bo, head of user operations at Nio. The company will officially launch the vehicle by the end of May and start deliveries from June 1.

According to the report, the car measures 5,365 mm in length, 2,029 mm in width, and 1,870 mm in height, with a wheelbase of 3,250 mm. Model ES9 is bigger than its third-generation ES8, which recently reached 90,000 deliveries in China, a mere 14 days after hitting 80,000, tweeted CEO Li.

Nio’s Q1 Delivery Numbers

Nio’s first-quarter (Q1) delivery figures beat its own estimates. The carmaker delivered 35,486 vehicles in March 2026, up 136% from a year earlier, led by 22,490 units from its NIO brand, along with 6,877 ONVO vehicles and 6,119 FIREFLY cars. Its Q1 deliveries surged 98.3% to 83,465 units, while cumulative deliveries surpassed 1.08 million as of March 31, 2026.

Earlier this month, the company guided for quarterly deliveries of 80,000 to 83,000 vehicles, implying growth of roughly 90% to 97%. Based on that outlook, it needed to deliver at least 32,021 vehicles in March.

​How Retail Investors Feel About NIO

According to Stocktwits data, the retail sentiment for the car maker has dipped to ‘neutral’ from ‘bullish’ a day ago, while message volume was at ‘normal’ levels.

One user on Stocktwits said, “NIO US always try to downplay anything Chinese because they are totally scared out of their minds of the progress made on all fronts in China for the last 30 years.”

Year to date, Nio shares have surged more than 85%.

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