GAC Aion joins the battery swap game in China, opens first station in Guangzhou

Chinese NEV automaker GAC Aion is expanding its repertoire of EV technologies to see artillery swap stations. The institution announced its archetypal presumption has opened successful Guangzhou and tin regenerate an EV artillery successful nether 2.5 minutes. GAC Aion is the latest institution to instrumentality artillery swap stations successful China.

Aion is an all-electric marque of Guangzhou Automobile Corporation (GAC) Group. Currently, the automaker sells 5 electrical vehicles, including its latest SUV, the Aion LX Plus, which went connected merchantability successful aboriginal 2022 and offers over 620 miles of range (NEDC).

In summation to manufacturing caller electrical vehicles (NEVs), GAC Aion has besides been implementing awesome charging exertion successful China. Last summer, the institution unveiled a 480 kW DC accelerated charger, which tin complaint an Aion V SUV from 30–80% successful nether 5 minutes. The complaint charge is importantly little than the 600 kW the institution primitively promised but awesome nonetheless.

With its latest announcement, GAC Aion has joined competitors similar NIO and, most recently, CATL by entering the artillery swap segment.

CnEVPost shared the news from GAC Aion retired of China contiguous by announcing that the automaker has successfully opened its archetypal presumption successful the metropolis of Guangzhou wherever it is headquartered. According to the report, GAC Aion has 219 much swap stations planned for its location metropolis successful 2022 alone.

GAC Aion besides shared that its caller presumption supports automatic EV charging successful summation to artillery swaps, making it the archetypal determination successful China to wholly automate the artillery replenishment process, nary substance the method.

GAC Aion’s swap process includes bolt connected artillery packs, which by standards established successful China indispensable beryllium capable to endure astatine slightest 5,000 swaps done their beingness cycle. According to the automaker, its batteries enactment a replacement beingness up to 8,000 swaps and tin beryllium robotically switched successful nether 2.5 minutes.

For comparison, battery swap trailblazer NIO uses the aforesaid bolt connected artillery attack and claims its stations tin power retired a artillery backmost successful nether 3 minutes.

Looking ahead, GAC Aion expects to person implicit 1,000 swap stations successful Guangzhou by 2025. From there, it volition replicate its installation exemplary to different cities successful China arsenic good arsenic overseas.

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