Chinese EV manufacturer Nio has opened its second battery swap station in Norway ahead of a larger European expansion of the company’s electric vehicles, battery swap stations, and its Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) subscription service.
The EV maker, sometimes seen as a credible rival to American EV darling Tesla, has been consistently in the headlines, of late, with the launch of EVs and the deployment of battery swap stations.
As a press release states, it is Nio’s expansion out of its home country and into Europe that is of particular interest, given that such an expansion will pit the automaker against the big names of the global automotive industry.
Located in Vestby district – just south of the capital of Oslo and on the major route to the second largest city in neighbouring Sweden, Gothenburg – the battery swap station was opened in a little ceremony.
Nio is also expecting to begin deploying and operating its battery swap stations in Germany, according to a Tweet from the company’s director for Europe, Florian Otto.
