Oct 21, 2026 | Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles
Over China’s seven-day National Day holiday, Nio’s battery-swap network performed 1,192,221 swaps and BYD’s megawatt flash-charging network delivered about 1.22 million charges. The two totals are within three percent of each other. That near-tie is...
Oct 15, 2026 | Charging & Infrastructure
Over China’s eight-day National Day holiday, electric vehicles drew 163 million kilowatt-hours from expressway chargers — up 51 percent on a year earlier, and a record 28 million kWh on October 1 alone. The network carried it. At a handful of service areas,...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles
Geely is buying 30% of Nio’s battery-swapping arm at a valuation of about 16 billion yuan ($2.2 billion), and the market is reading it as the moment car battery-swapping finally cleared the problem that has always defined it: nobody else’s cars can use the...
Aug 12, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Motorcycles
Battery swapping works. It just works for scooters, not cars. Gogoro swaps a 9 kg, 1.7 kWh scooter battery by hand in under six seconds and has done it more than 650 million times across Asia; a car pack holds forty times the energy and weighs half a tonne. That gap —...
Aug 2, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations, Trucks
The European Union registered 4,991 battery-electric heavy trucks in all of 2025. China registered 231,100 new-energy heavy trucks — a category that is about 97% battery-electric, the remainder fuel cell. In the first half of 2026 China added another 126,200, up 85%...
