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Originally Posted by 90503

I guess the Chinese we're so fond of using as the impetus for the EV market could use your input before they invest too much in this loser.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aut...25-2021-09-26/

September 26, 2021
2:00 AM PDT
Last Updated 2 days ago
Autos & Transportation
China's Geely to set up 5,000 battery swapping stations by 2025
Reuters





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The Geely logo is seen at a car dealership in Shanghai, China August 17, 2021. Picture taken August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song
The Geely logo is seen at a car dealership in Shanghai, China August 17, 2021. Picture taken August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song

BEIJING, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China's Geely (GEELY.UL) aims to set up 5,000 battery swapping stations for electric vehicles (EV) globally by 2025, as sales grow in the world's biggest vehicle market, the automaker said in a statement on Sunday.

A battery swapping station allows drivers to change car batteries to power the rides. Chinese automaker Nio Inc (NIO.N) plans to have 4,000 battery swapping stations globally by 2025.

China is promoting EV-related infrastructure facilities, including charging stations and battery swapping stations.

I saw all that. Looks shockingly like all the press releases when Renault and PSA were aligning with Better Place to do the same thing in Europe. When it became clear to Renault and PSA that they would need to give a fair amount of control over the development parameters of their architectures and battery box structures to Better Place, they backed (ran, actually) away from it. Better Place is now in a better place. If Geely can pull it off, more power to ‘em, but it would likely only work for their own specific vehicles. And Nio replacement centers would only work for Nio vehicles. Unless they agree to collaborate early in vehicle development to commonize important touch points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)