Topic: Chinese company to sell EVs w/o batteries and crete battery swap stations

[patentlymn]

Some Chinese start up is selling their cars w/o batteries and is setting up battery swap stations that can swap batteries in maybe 3 minutes. This is in only China I think. They standardize on BYD batteries and maybe another.

https://youtu.be/mbXpj8Xa2yQ

Nio and BYD want to sell EV's without a battery, to take on Tesla and gas-powered cars.
Nio is a Chinese electric vehicle maker who has taken a radical approach to selling EV's:  sell cars without the battery, and allow their customers to swap for fully charged batteries whenever needed. 

Nio has spent the past five years building a comprehensive, and expensive, network of battery swapping stations.  Buyers of Nio vehicles lease the batteries, and instead of charging them they take them to a station where they are replaced. 

This strategy allows Nio to sell at a price far below competitors.  Swapping a battery takes only minutes, while charging requires hours. 

Though it's early, customers thus far report a strong preference for the option of battery swapping, compared to fast charging.  What's more, providing a fast and convenient charge positions Nio to directly challenge gas-driven cars.

Nio is partnered with BYD and CATL, the world's top producers of electric vehicle batteries.  All three firms are now fully invested in the battery swap strategy, and believe that their sales growth is limited only by how quickly they can build more charging stations.  And if they are correct, they will transform the transportation industry with little chance for rivals to catch up, for decades to come.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Hmm . . . do the batteries still explode?

[Libertas]

Under Trump they'd never get near...their aim is to dominate third world...see how their domestic economies like being their captives...

 

[Syzygy]

Nothing new here.  At one place of employment we used Toyota fork lifts that were electric.  When the truck started losing power,  we would take it to the "battery exchange station" and swap the battery for a fully charged one.  Darn heavy things,  too.  I figure one quarter to one half the size of one needed to power a compact EV but I doubt their being lithium.  We used an overhead winch system to remove and replace.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

Nothing new here.  At one place of employment we used Toyota fork lifts that were electric.  When the truck started losing power,  we would take it to the "battery exchange station" and swap the battery for a fully charged one.  Darn heavy things,  too.  I figure one quarter to one half the size of one needed to power a compact EV but I doubt their being lithium.  We used an overhead winch system to remove and replace.

It does make sense. I use several Ryobi power tools (blower, weed-whacker, drill, etc.) and have 4 interchangeable  batteries to switch &  swap.

[Libertas]

Nothing new here.  At one place of employment we used Toyota fork lifts that were electric.  When the truck started losing power,  we would take it to the "battery exchange station" and swap the battery for a fully charged one.  Darn heavy things,  too.  I figure one quarter to one half the size of one needed to power a compact EV but I doubt their being lithium.  We used an overhead winch system to remove and replace.

It does make sense. I use several Ryobi power tools (blower, weed-whacker, drill, etc.) and have 4 interchangeable  batteries to switch &  swap.

Yeah, you're smart...I wasn't, all my stuff is different...   

But I do have extra batt's so not entirely dumb...just not pennywise...