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The NIO car company sells cars with swappable batteries and has built battery swap stations in Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The swap action
by Cthulhu_ 2y ago
The NIO car company sells cars with swappable batteries and has built battery swap stations in Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The swap action looks slow and very particular still to be honest, but there's probably good reasons behind it (including not wanting actuators on the car itself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdQQxgxDrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdQQxgxDrY
- peutetre 2y agoThe swap takes six minutes (example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0). The swap stations charge the packs to 90%. So swapping in a 100 kWh pack that has been charged to 90 kWh is the equivalent of charging the car at 900 kW. Nio will start introducing 150 kWh packs in the same physical form factor which they charge to 135 kWh. Swapping one of those in would be the equivalent of charging at 1.35 megawatts.