What if instead of spending 30 minutes searching for a charger and plugging it in, you could replace your dead EV battery with a new one in just 5 minutes? That’s why we’ve created over 1,300 battery swap locations to help you do just that. That’s the question from Nio, a seven-year-old Chinese electric car company with a network of stations. But most of these stations are in China, with 100 in Shanghai alone. , primarily serves customers who live in apartments and don’t have the space to install a charger at home. A customer buys a car, but leases the battery and is granted access to his network of swap stations for a monthly fee. In contrast, Europe currently only has 27 so-called power swap stations in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Europe. Sweden says there are probably more in development. Nio plans to expand into the UK by the end of 2024, but the US is not currently on Nio’s roadmap, as is alternative Chinese car brand BYD. The Nio driver is guided by the navigation system to the battery swap station and parked. Go to the designated bay and leave your car…
