After eight years of loyal service, Mr. Huang, a Beijing taxi driver, parted ways with his old Hyundai Elantra to take possession of his first electric vehicle, an EU 300 from Beijing manufacturer BAIC.
The model has it all: range of 300 km, top speed of 120 km / h, lower cost per kilometer than gasoline, no emission of pollutants ... But the real specificity of this car is under the hood , which houses an interchangeable battery at one of the city's 130 stations.
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From the outside, the station looks like a car wash that Mr. Huang walks through without even getting out of his car: "
In three minutes, the machine changes my battery,
" he explains.
He then pays for the service on a mobile application which also allows him to geolocate the nearest station and to know the number of batteries available.
This technology, of which the manufacturers BAIC, Geely and NIO are the leaders on the Chinese market, presents
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