After CATL introduced its Evogo battery swap resolution in 2022 and started establishing the primary areas, the corporate is now setting particular targets for the growth of its battery swapping community in China. CATL is now aiming for a complete of 10,000 battery-swapping stations, as battery maker’s Chief Know-how Officer (CTO) Gao Huan mentioned on the 2024 World Energy Battery Convention in Yibin, China.
The goal isn’t static, nonetheless, and has yearly milestones to succeed in: The preliminary goal is to construct 500 new battery swapping stations throughout 50 cities by 2025, with 1,500 up and operational in 70 cities by 2026 and by 2027, CATL goals to have grown its community by 3,000 swapping stations.
CATL presently has round 2,500 battery swapping energetic in China, and when it launched the model in 2022, CATL said that it wished to “open to providing the service to all automotive firms and goals to construct the world’s largest service community in two to 3 years.” Within the meantime, CATL has launched the service in a number of cities, together with Xiamen, Fuzhou, Guiyang and Hefei. Nonetheless, the most important quantity of swapping stations stands in Xiamen, with solely 12 swapping stations within the metropolis of 5 million, in response to a Weibo submit by EVOGO.
Whereas battery-swapping know-how has been widespread in Asia for a while, with Gogoro increasing its scooter-battery-swapping enterprise into China in 2022, and Nio transferring to combine its swapping stations in China with the nationwide grid in the identical yr. The identical yr noticed issues slowly taking off in Europe, with the second battery-swapping station in Norway opened by Nio. Now, the know-how is in way more widespread demand, with a take a look at for a Fuso eCanter with swappable batteries launching in Kyoto final month, and Kaufland Romania constructing swapping stations, introduced just some days in the past. The African electrical bike producer Spiro can be establishing battery-swapping stations in Nigeria.
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