If Nio can successfully persuade other manufacturers to adopt their battery swap standard, I can see battery swapping becoming mainstream. With the ability to easily replace a worn out or obsolete battery, depreciation becomes much less of an issue.
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The issue is all of the swap schemes make you take your charged battery back, or you have to lease a battery from the manufacturer. The financial aspect doesn't really make sense for most people, I suspect, until battery rental/leasing is much cheaper.
This was demoed by Tesla 10 years ago, and offered as a service for a year or so before being abandoned in 2016, apparently due to lack of demand. Guess the landscape may be different now, but single vendor systems are likely still quite a problem.
american consumer behaviour isn't really a benchmark.
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