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While your typical EV rapid-charging session can take upwards of 30 minutes, Chinese carmaker NIO has gone in a different direction: battery swapping. Instead of plugging in your electric car, you can have your battery swapped out for a fresh one – almost completely autonomously – in less than 10 minutes. Is it the future of zero-emissions motoring? We sent editor Richard Ingram to NIO’s first European swap station in Norway to find out…

Chapters:
00:00 - NIO’s rapid-charging alternative
00:45 - The swap station network
01:34 - Swapping batteries in the NIO ES8
04:19 - How long does it take?
05:32 - How much does it cost?
02:34 - The future of electric motoring?

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