Chinese language premium EV model Nio is rolling out the third era of its battery swap expertise in Europe and has signed a take care of different Chinese language manufacturers to make use of the answer.

The most recent battery swap areas in Malmo and Arlandastad, Sweden, kind a part of Nio’s plans to create a Europe huge community and USP for the model.

There are actually 30 Nio battery swap stations throughout Europe in Denmark, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain. The UK is predicted to get battery swap stations when Nio possible launched subsequent yr.

Battery swap subscribers can swap out their low battery for a completely charged or 80% charged one in below three minutes.

The most recent battery swap station expertise can perform 408 swaps per day and may retailer as much as 21 EV batteries.

Nio has additionally partnered with Geely and Changan Auto so fashions from these manufacturers will be capable of use the identical battery swap stations and community, making a rival to one thing like Tesla’s Supercharger community.

This might imply future fashions from Volvo, Polestar, Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Lotus, London Electrical Automobiles might use the battery swap stations throughout Europe.

The Chinese language corporations have fashioned an alliance to create battery swapping requirements, expertise, community growth, operation, swappable mannequin growth and battery asset administration.

This video from final yr exhibits how the Energy Swap Station resolution works with the earlier second era model of the expertise:

Defending residual values

Nio believes the battery swap expertise may also help defend an EV’s residual values (RV) to “get rid of any widespread considerations concerning battery degradation”.

At the moment out there in China, Nio customers can improve or downgrade their battery to go well with their necessities, permitting automobile vary and battery specification to be tailor-made all through automobile possession.

NIO’s third-generation battery swap areas are outfitted with a two-megawatt hour (MWh) power storage system, designed to feed power again into the grid if required.

The video beneath exhibits the pace of rollout for Nio’s Energy Swap Stations in China: