Video Summary
Here is the requested summary of the YouTube video:- The video is about the reviewers experience with battery swap and its viability.
- Neo has over 300,000 cars in China.
- They are establishing battery swap stations in Europe, but there are only a handful in Norway.
- One battery swap is in the 7 to 10 minute range.
- Most new battery swaps only give the vehicle up to 90% battery capacity.
- Optimizing for speed, which is what battery swap should do, is important for this service.
- NIO offers battery-as-a-service which makes the car cheaper.
- A Neo driver has “unlimited battery warranty” since it is just getting swapped.
- There is no official charging protocol for swaps, therefore car batteries can degrade over time, however the batteries used at their swap stations have an equal amount of degradation to make that a non-issue.
- Batteries are charged 90kwh at these battery swap stations.
- Battery swapping is good in that you don't need to worry about degradation if the user is just swapping the battery.
- Fast charging is not too viable as it degrades the battery more than the other options.
- The core issue is having enough battery swap stations available along the route.
- The overall verdict on battery swaps is that the reviewers can’t “see the light” in its viability due to the large cost needed to make it a practical and valuable service.
