NIO ES8 & 3-minute Battery Swap Station | FULLY CHARGED for Clean Energy & Electric Vehicles

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ComradePhil · 2022-03 · Recommendation

Here is a video on how it works: [VIDEO] While currently, thr stations have to be manned, there is potential for this to be completely unmanned drivethrough where you take the car and never have to get out of it, you pay and the battery is changed for you in 3 minutes (which also looks like it could be improved, and that could come down to less than a minute). I have no doubt that this will absolutely kill the competition. Also, it doesn't have to be one standard size. A standard interface with a few standard sizes will work just fine.

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pierat · 2024-01 · Reference

Well, I've been looking at Chinese EV's and basically drooling at what they're doing. In this country (USA), an EV is a ball-and-chain over how many miles until you go before a recharge for hours. In China, its 3 minutes to SWAP a battery. You know, the solution the manchild in charge of Tesla said wouldn't work. And here it is, working in USD 12k ev's. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [VIDEO] But hey, look at the "bright side" - we now get $7500 off cars that start at USD 70k for EVs. Real 'deal'.

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cronix · 2021-10 · Reference

> A car battery should be swappable in a day or two Nio currently swaps out their car batteries in about 3 minutes, much like you'd get an oil change at Jiffy Lube or something. It's completely automated except someone pulls the car in/out of the bay for you. I imagine that human step will be relatively short lived. > they have to be heavily shielded in case of an accident. Yes, it's just a simple matter of purposefully designing it to be removed easily. This is cued up to where he gets to the battery swap station: [VIDEO]

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