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

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

There at the moment are 30 Nio battery swap stations throughout Europe in Denmark, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain. The UK is anticipated 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 beneath three minutes.

The most recent battery swap station know-how 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 have the ability to 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 may use the battery swap stations throughout Europe.

The Chinese language firms have shaped an alliance to create battery swapping requirements, know-how, community enlargement, operation, swappable mannequin growth and battery asset administration.

Defending residual values

Nio believes the battery swap know-how may help shield an EV’s residual values (RV) to “remove any frequent issues concerning battery degradation”.

Presently accessible in China, Nio customers can improve or downgrade their battery to go well with their necessities, permitting car vary and battery specification to be tailor-made all through car possession.

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

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