NIO is a revolutionary automotive company

The Chinese NIO company designs and delivers e-Vehicles called User Experience Defined Vehicles.

In order to offer an autonomous car, NIO engineers have completely rethought the digital architecture of their smart eV, which is always connected to the cloud.

This currently allows them to deliver 

• 1 FOTA update every 3 months (75 over the last few years),
• 550 Function Upgrades,
• plus more than 400 new functions

As Mark Zhou, Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Product Committee at NIO, said:

" Things are much more synchronized with CATIA using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as the baseline.

In addition, we are working and looking at combining the modeling and simulation in a real time process to check .. whether the system meets the requirements rather than having different engineer organizations working in silos, and then finding out problems at a much, much later stage and correcting these problems either becomes impossible or it will cost the company massive amount of investment."

Thank you @OS ​​​​​​​, @YS ​​​​​​​and @GG for this inspiring interview.