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    ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY SWAPPING

    Mar 27, 2022 3 minutes
    DYLAN CAMPBELL

    IMAGINE AN ELECTRIC vehicle that can go from zero range to 500km in just three minutes – without even asking you to unbuckle your seatbelt.

    It sounds like something from 2050, but it’s here right now. In China, upstart electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Nio has installed more than 700 battery ‘swap stations’ for its budding range of new electric models, and has performed more than four million battery exchanges since 2017. In the next three years,

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