At the 7th World New Energy Vehicle Congress held in Haikou, China on September 28, 2025, NIO’s comprehensive vehicle operating system “SkyOS・天枢” was honored with the “Global New Energy Vehicle Innovation Technology” award. The award was announced by Sun Fengchun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and presented by Wan Gang, President of the China Association for Science and Technology and Chairman of the World New Energy Vehicle Congress. NIO’s Executive Vice President, Shen Feng, accepted the award on behalf of the company.
Since its inception in 2019, the World New Energy Vehicle Congress has become an annual international event in the new energy vehicle sector. The “Global New Energy Vehicle Frontier and Innovative Technology Award” is a key activity of the congress, aimed at capturing the latest advancements in the application of innovative technologies for new energy vehicles and identifying cutting-edge directions in cross-industry technology convergence.
This year’s selection event collected nearly a hundred candidate technologies. With multiple rounds of evaluations conducted by renowned experts and scholars, including seven academicians from home and abroad, nine frontier technologies and nine innovative technologies were finally selected, with NIO’s “SkyOS・天枢” among them. Developed over four years with an investment exceeding 23,000 person-months, “SkyOS・天枢” was fully launched at the NIO IN 2024 Innovation Day in July 2024 and is currently installed in the NIO, ONVO, and Firefly brands’ available models.
“SkyOS・天枢” bridges intelligent hardware, computing platform, communication, and energy systems at the foundational level, achieving unified management and coordination of applications across vehicle connectivity, vehicle control, intelligent driving, digital cockpit, and mobile applications. It features high bandwidth, low latency, great computing power with heterogeneous hardware, cross-domain integration, flexible and continuous evolution, high reliability, and information security.
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