{"id":84767,"date":"2018-11-15T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/nio-deploys-18-battery-swap-stations-covering-2000-km-expressway"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:42:24","slug":"nio-deploys-18-battery-swap-stations-covering-2000-km-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/nio-deploys-18-battery-swap-stations-covering-2000-km-expressway","title":{"rendered":"Nio deploys 18 battery swap stations covering 2,000+ km expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nio-deploys-18-battery-swap-stations-covering-2000-km-expressway.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one in the electric vehicle space has managed to make battery swapping work yet, but Nio is trying big time with 18 new battery swap stations covering a 2,000+ km expressway in China.<\/p>\n<p>Several companies tried and failed at battery swapping. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/10\/25\/teslas-battery-swapping-magic-revealed-patent-drawings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla had a battery swap system<\/a> that they seemingly abandoned and Better Place went bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>But you could say Tesla didn\u2019t try that hard and has instead bet on fast-charging and Better Place was a little too ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/11\/15\/nio-battery-swap-stations-network\/\">https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/11\/15\/nio-battery-swap-stations-network\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one in the electric vehicle space has managed to make battery swapping work yet, but Nio is trying big time with 18 new battery swap stations covering a 2,000+ km expressway in China. Several companies tried and failed at battery swapping. Tesla had a battery swap system that they seemingly abandoned and 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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84767","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=84767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}