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如果不是把车开进充电站，等待电动汽车(EV)充电，而是将一个充满电且准备就绪的电池直接插入汽车，会怎么样?

这正是中国汽车制造商蔚来(Nio)在其挪威工厂所做的。

这种“电换电站”在中国已经很普遍，它是欧洲第一个这样的“电源交换站”——允许司机在公司的应用程序上预订一个插槽，然后由工作团队将旧电池取出，换上一个可以使用的电池。

据报道，这一过程大约需要5-10分钟，比电池的平均充电时间快30分钟左右。

蔚来汽车还为电动汽车购买者采用了一种不同的商业模式，即购车后租赁电池。

该公司称，这为车主节省了约7700英镑，因为电池是电动汽车最昂贵的部分。

租赁电池每月要支付高达215英镑的费用，但蔚来声称，这意味着车主始终拥有最新的技术为其旅程提供动力。

挪威蔚来公司的电力和运营经理Espen Byrjall说：“不存在电池退化的问题。你的电池总是完好的。因此，你可以让汽车保持更长时间"。

据称，挪威的换电站每天可以处理240次电池更换，蔚来计划在挪威部署20个站点。

原文：

What if instead of pulling into a charging station and waiting for your electric vehicle (EV) to charge-up, a fully charged and ready battery was plugged straight into your car?

That’s what Chinese carmaker Nio is doing at its facility in Norway.

Already commonplace in China, this ‘Power Swap Station’ is the first in Europe – allowing drivers to book a slot on the company’s app and then the old battery is removed by a team and replaced with one that’s good to go.

The process reportedly takes around 5-10 minutes, which is around 30 minutes quicker than the average time it takes to charge a battery.

Nio is also employing a different business model for EV buyers, in which they buy the car and lease the battery.

The business claims that this saves the driver around £7,700, as the battery is the costliest part of the EV.

A monthly fee of up to £215 is then paid for the battery but Nio claims that this means the driver always has the most up-to-date technology powering their journey.

Espen Byrjall, Power and Operations Manager for Nio in Norway, said: “There’s no battery degradation. You always get a healthy battery. So, you can keep the cars longer.”

The Norwegian site can allegedly deal with 240 battery swaps each day and Nio aims to deploy 20 in the Scandinavian country.