“There’s no battery degradation. You always get a healthy battery. So, you can keep the cars longer.”
This station can handle up to 240 swaps a day, and the firm plans to create 20 here in Norway.
It’s also partnered with energy giant Shell, to roll them out across Europe, with the aim of installing 1000 by 2025. “It’s going to be a network that lets you drive all over Europe,” says Mr Byrjall.
Alternative strategies
However, from Nio’s flashy showroom in central Oslo, the firm is pursuing a rather different business model – where customers buy the car and lease the battery.
Marius Hayler, the firm’s general manager for Norway and Denmark, says there are several advantages to this approach.
For a start, the customer is not buying the most expensive bit of an electric car – the battery. That knocks around £7,700 ($9,700) off the purchase price.
Source: Will swapping out electric car batteries catch on? – BBC News


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