Shares of NIO (NYSE: NIO) were moving higher on Monday after the Chinese electric-vehicle maker said that its manufacturing partner had agreed to double its production capacity to build up to 240,000 NIOs per year. 

As of 1:15 p.m. EDT, NIO's American depositary shares were up about 5.7% from Friday's closing price.

Some background: NIO doesn't own a factory; its vehicles are manufactured under contract by a joint venture with government-owned automaker Jianghuai Automobile Group, or JAC, in a JAC-owned factory in the industrial city of Hefei, near NIO's headquarters. 

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