Recently, SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle officially released the Roewe Ei5 Quick Change Edition. The new car adopts the Oudong new energy 20-second ultra-fast battery swap technology, which can exchange energy at Oudong’s battery swap service network.
The Roewe Ei5 mainly serves the taxi market. At the press conference, the first batch of hundreds of Roewe Ei5s were delivered to two taxi companies and officially put into operation. Zhou Humei, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Taxi and Car Rental Industry Association, stated at the press conference, “The battery swap mode can significantly shorten the time for vehicle energy supply and improve the effective operation time of the vehicle, thereby increasing the actual income of drivers.”
SAIC’s Ei5 collaborated with Oudong New Energy this time. At present, 12 battery swap stations have been built in Shanghai, and it is planned to build 40 new battery swap stations in Shanghai by the end of this year, and 200-300 battery swap stations will be built in Shanghai by 2025.
Source: SAIC Roewe
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