Fisker & Circle K Show Us That EV Charging & Battery Swapping Continue To Compete

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 13:50:52 +0000

Battery swapping and DC fast charging are two distinct methods for addressing the charging needs of electric vehicles (EVs). Each method has its own advantages, offering unique solutions to overcome challenges in the EV ecosystem. Battery swapping involves replacing an EV’s depleted battery with a fully charged one. This approach can significantly reduce wait times […]

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NIO: 10 Billion Kilometers, 20 Million Battery Swaps

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 00:58:15 +0000

It seems that NIO has been rolling out big news quicker and quicker. It just keeps hitting new giant milestones and innovating on its unique technology. In the past few weeks, it has reached 10 billion kilometers driven across its customer vehicle fleet, and it has surpassed 20 million battery swaps. More stunning stats and […]

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Electric Boats To Jumpstart Japan’s Floating Offshore Wind Industry

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:25:59 +0000

floating wind offshore japanA fleet of electric boats could build new floating offshore wind farms in Japan that deploy new cost-cutting tensile leg platform technology, eventually.

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Gogoro’s Swappable Batteries To Power Food Delivery Scooters In Singapore

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:30:38 +0000

Gogoro & foodpanda SingaporeGogoro is a company we love to follow here at CleanTechnica. They got their start in Taiwan, where scooters are already immensely popular. But, Gogoro figured out a way to make it easier to keep an electric scooter charged up in a country where most people don’t have access to a plug where they park, […]

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Kofa Is Working To Advance Urban Energy Access For Mobility & Backup Power Across Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:05:58 +0000

How did a US/Norwegian national end up founding a business in Ghana with the aim of advancing energy access in Ghana and beyond? Well, Erik Nygard lived in Ghana during his formative years, before going to university in the US and then the UK. His family moved across West Africa for over 30 years, mainly […]

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Truck Stops Are Very Big In America — Could Battery Swapping Be An Option For Charging All Those Trucks?

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:05:15 +0000

One of my favorite musicians is the legendary Chimurenga music icon Thomas Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe. Due to the heated political environment in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s (it still is, you can say), Thomas Mapfumo moved to the US.  Although he had traveled to perform in the US several times before settling there, I assume […]

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NIO ES8 Review — 1st impressions

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:56:03 +0000

I wrote a long article about NIO in the summer 2022. I had visited NIO and the NIO House in Oslo in the spring. While most of the visit was a conference about NIO, the next day we did have the opportunity to drive and use the battery swap station outside of Oslo. It was […]

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Gogoro Expands Scooter Swap Network Into The Phillipines

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:36:46 +0000

Gogoro battery swappingWe’ve written about Gogoro in the past about how amazing its battery swap system is for electric scooters and motorcycles. With this company, you don’t have to worry about finding a power plug as seen in this short video. Gogoro’s innovative Taiwan-based batteries can simply be dropped off at a charging station or (if you’re […]

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Last Mile EV Delivery In The Philippines Boosted By Battery Swapping Partnership

Credit to Author: Raymond Tribdino| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:00:32 +0000

Electric 2-wheelers have been part of the last-mile transportation in the Philippines since 2006 when the first electric bicycles and scooters came in from China. These vehicles were however, low mileage, and high maintenance using heavy lead acid batteries for power. In 2010 the Asian Development Bank funded 3-wheeled electric transportation to replace the smoke-spewing […]

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