{"id":108377,"date":"2020-06-08T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nio-might-have-figured-out-battery-swap-for-electric-cars-as-it-completes-500000-swaps"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:44:11","slug":"nio-might-have-figured-out-battery-swap-for-electric-cars-as-it-completes-500000-swaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nio-might-have-figured-out-battery-swap-for-electric-cars-as-it-completes-500000-swaps","title":{"rendered":"Nio might have figured out battery swap for electric cars as it completes 500,000 swaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GpQuJSfuuVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have been covering electric vehicles, I\u2019ve seen several companies attempt to add value to EVs by using swappable battery packs.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that if charging takes longer than refueling a tank of gas, we could just swap a battery pack for a fully charged one.<\/p>\n<p>A startup called Better Place built its entire business model around it and went bankrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I have been covering electric vehicles, I\u2019ve seen several companies attempt to add value to EVs by using swappable battery packs. The idea is that if charging takes longer than refueling a tank of gas, we could just swap a battery pack for a fully charged one. A startup called Better Place [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}