A Battery-Swapping Secret Is Behind The New Nio Affordable L60 Electric Vehicle
The Chinese automaker and battery-swapping enthusiast Nio is adding the new L60 electric car to its electric vehicle lineup under the Onvo brand.
The Chinese automaker and battery-swapping enthusiast Nio is adding the new L60 electric car to its electric vehicle lineup under the Onvo brand.
Tesla tried battery swapping a long time ago. Sort of. Maybe. In any case, it didn’t last long and there were only a couple of battery swap stations trialled. Better Place tried battery swapping for real in Israel, but then the company went bankrupt. NIO decided it would include battery … [continued]
NIO continues to grow in China. It may not be anywhere close to the sales of EV giants BYD and Tesla, but it’s growing. Its November sales were up 12.6%, and its sales throughout the first 11 months of the year were up 33.1%. In volume terms, NIO had 15,959 … [continued]
NIO is far and away the global leader in electric car battery swapping — right now and historically. It has rolled out rolled out 2,100 battery swap stations and has done 32 million battery swaps. Most of its battery swap stations are in China, but it also now has some … [continued]
CleanTechnica recently got to check out the NIO ES8 up close and personal in Norway — the brand new European edition of the ES8. Chanan Bos wrote a super thorough review of the ES8 over the weekend and has a related video coming as well. Interestingly, one of the biggest … [continued]
NIO is the only EV manufacturer that is offering its customers flexible “battery as a service” plans to fit their individual needs.
Changan electric car unit Avatr has become the latest EV producer to join NIO’s EV charging network. It’s the 14th automaker to do so. NIO has 2,442 supercharging stations installed in China, and 11,206 individual chargers at those stations. The company also has 1,660 destination charging stations with 12,887 chargers. … [continued]
The Chinese electric car market is on fire. However, Chinese automakers know their sales in China can only reach a certain level, and there’s a lot more potential out beyond China’s borders if they can move quickly. There’s very little EV supply in many markets still — or even none. … [continued]
Some headline writers continue to write off 100% battery-electric vehicles as a passing fad, overwhelmed by a flood of hybrids and the insatiable thirst for liquid fuel. That’s just plain silly, of course. Global EV sales continue to rise. The question is how fast. Faster-charging and less expensive batteries with … [continued]
NIO has been running this battery swapping experiment for several years, and it’s been an interesting ongoing exploration of how much people prefer pack swapping to fast charging, how attached people are (or are not) to their EV’s batteries, and what makes the most financial sense. But it’s now going … [continued]