"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
08/21/2020 at 05:52 • Filed to: Nio
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
08/21/2020 at 05:52 • Filed to: Nio | 0
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That’s right gang, we have a subscription service for your powertrain! Insuring, licensing, and financing are all done, a managment company has been founded, and it’s been !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Your New Electric Car! *Batteries Not Included
http://autonews.gasgoo.com/m/70017454.html
How much of a discount do you get for buying an electric car without the battery? Actually, just over $10,000 off of MSRP for the basic 70kwh battery. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for that power unit class comes out to $142.
It takes 6 years to breakeven at that rate. Financially, getting $10,000 off of sticker, all the same tax exemptions and subsidies, plus the interest you save financing a significantly lower principal amount are a recipe for this service to quickly move to a near 100% take rate in no time. I mean, why would you want to own a 6 year old battery, anyways?
http://autonews.gasgoo.com/m/70017462.html
It makes more sense to save the cents since you can use any of the 143 Nio battery swap stations to switch to a fresh new battery in 5 minutes. No worry of charge degradation, easy battery recall service, battery upgrades due to advancing tech, or bumping up to a 100kWh unit for more performance or down to a 70kWh to save some cash on a monthly basis.
You’re buying the car based on features, NOT powertrain. Game changing stuff! If China continues to encourage battery swapping to the point of incentivizing the method, then you end up with Tesla being a generation behind China EV makers.
That’s a moat for Nio in the short term, an advantage for China’s domestic EV manufacturers, and the only real catalyst for a Tesla dive in market share. If Nio gets their own manufacturing plant (they look to be heading towards production capacity with JAC), they could double their market share within the first two years of operation.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 07:13 |
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so Nio are doing what Better Place set out to do originally.
facw
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 07:25 |
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Honestly this seems like a model that could work, Though as pip bip noted, Better Place didn’t really have any success with it. Also I’d like to see something where the individual cells are loaded in and out like belt-fed ammo. Not sure if that’s practical, but it would be a lot cooler looking!
66P1800inpieces
> facw
08/21/2020 at 08:54 |
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Star for the battery belt. Efficient , who knows, but it sure would be cool to watch.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 09:13 |
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Very good idea, but t he less money we funnel to China the better.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 10:34 |
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Exchanging the battery certainly is the simplest solution to charge times.
A but if infrastructure and coast to coast trips could actually be possible in a fully functioning family sized EV.
BahamaTodd
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 15:44 |
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So if you don’t pay, do they have a battery repo truck?
onlytwowheels
> Wobbles the Mind
08/21/2020 at 18:42 |
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My former employer touted the need for battery swapping a decade ago. Instead of ch arging you would just swap for a fully charged and continue on your way. I told him the batteries needed to be standardized to four or five siz es , much like the batteries we use for flashlights and electronics. I think that gas stations could easily become battery swap centers, and that would put an end to our range anxieties and dependence on fossil fuel.