{"id":478990,"date":"2022-03-26T10:11:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=478990"},"modified":"2022-03-26T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T05:24:42","slug":"battery-swapping-continues-to-emerge-as-an-alternative-to-charging-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/battery-swapping-continues-to-emerge-as-an-alternative-to-charging-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery swapping continues to emerge as an alternative to charging stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago Tesla dismissed the alternative path of electric car battery swapping as \u201criddled with problems and not suitable for widescale use\u201d. It seems Beijing disagrees. In fact, China is pushing hard for swappable batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) as a supplement to regular vehicle charging, with the government throwing its weight behind several companies advancing the technology. <\/p>\n<p>Four companies \u2013 automakers Nio and Geely, battery swap developer Aulton and state-owned oil producer Sinopec \u2013 say they plan to establish a total of 24,000 swap stations across the country by 2025, up from about 1,400 today. <\/p>\n<p>Battery swapping allows drivers to replace depleted packs quickly with fully charged ones, rather than plugging the vehicle into a charging point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago Tesla dismissed the alternative path of electric car battery swapping as \u201criddled with problems and not suitable for widescale use\u201d. It seems Beijing disagrees. In fact, China is pushing hard for swappable batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) as a supplement to regular vehicle charging, with the government throwing its weight behind several companies advancing the technology. Four companies \u2013 automakers Nio and Geely, battery swap developer Aulton and state-owned oil producer Sinopec \u2013 say they plan to establish a total of 24,000 swap stations across the country by 2025, up from about 1,400 today. Battery swapping allows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}