Name: 機器人剛剛為我的電動汽車更換了電池 (A robot just swapped my electric car's battery)
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T07:42:26.000Z
Duration: 5 min 24 s

One of the problems people have with electric cars is charging time.

人們在使用電動汽車時遇到的問題之一是充電時間。

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Yes, modern fast chargers can get your car to 80% in about half an hour, maybe even a little quicker if you're lucky, but that's a long time compared to the three or four minutes that it takes to fill up with petrol or diesel.

是的，現代快速充電器可以在半小時內將汽車的充電量提高到 80%，運氣好的話甚至可以更快一些，但與加滿汽油或機油所需的三四分鐘相比，這已經是很長的時間了。

So when I first heard there was a car company building automated battery swap stations, where robots will switch out your car battery in just a few minutes while you stay in the car, I assumed it'd be a weird prototype, some pie-in-the-sky technology from a university that would never become practical.

是以，當我第一次聽說有一家汽車公司正在建造自動電池更換站，讓機器人在幾分鐘內為你更換汽車電池，而你卻呆在車裡時，我以為這只是一個奇怪的原型，是一所大學的空中樓閣，永遠不會實用。

But that is a battery swap station, right there, open to the public.

但那是一個電池交換站，就在那裡，向公眾開放。

NIO has more than 2,100 stations operational in China, and the goal is to reach 2,300 by end of year.

目前，NIO 在中國的營運站點已超過 2,100 個，目標是到今年年底達到 2,300 個。

In Europe, we started around two years ago, and we have now 30 operational stations.

在歐洲，我們大約從兩年前開始運作，目前已有 30 個營運站。

In China, every day we have more than 40,000 battery swaps being performed, one every two seconds.

在中國，每天都有超過 40,000 次電池更換，每兩秒鐘就有一次。

And we have had peaks during holiday season, more than 60,000 a day.

在節假日期間，我們曾遇到過高峰，每天超過 60,000 人。

We're not just piloting this, it's already proven at scale.

我們不只是在試點，它已經得到了規模驗證。

They haven't paid me, I reached out to them.

他們還沒給我錢，我已經聯繫他們了。

Now you can tap to start parking into the power swap station.

現在，您可以點擊開始停車，進入換電站。

You drive the car in front of the station, and once you park in front of the station, the car takes over.

你把車開到車站前，一旦你把車停在車站前，車就會接管。

Do not open any door or take over the steering wheel.

請勿打開任何車門或接管方向盤。

You can press the brake panel to control the speed.

您可以按下制動板來控制速度。

NIO users, if they want to access the power swap network, they need to choose battery as a service.

NIO 用戶如果要訪問換電網絡，需要選擇電池作為一種服務。

So that means they don't own the battery, they lease the battery, and so they can get the access to the power swap station network.

是以，這意味著他們並不擁有電池，而是租賃電池，這樣他們就能進入換電站網絡。

You can purchase the battery and the car, or you can purchase the car but choose access to the swapping network.

您可以購買電池和汽車，也可以購買汽車但選擇訪問交換網絡。

You can also just subscribe to both the car and the battery.

您也可以同時訂購汽車和電池。

The idea is that you're not renting or buying a specific battery, but you're just paying for there always being a fresh battery in your car.

我們的理念是，您不是在租用或購買特定的電池，而只是在為汽車中始終有一塊新電池付費。

Charging is still a cheaper option, but there are plenty of people who'll pay a fee for convenience.

充電仍然是一種更便宜的選擇，但也有很多人會為了方便而付費。

We can serve the same amount of users comparable to a charging hub, but we need only one third of the space, and we need one third of the grid connection because we can charge the batteries at their low speed.

我們可以為與充電中心相同數量的用戶提供服務，但我們只需要三分之一的空間，也只需要三分之一的電網連接，因為我們可以以低速為電池充電。

We charge the batteries at specific points in time where there is a need to get rid of all that power and balance the grid.

我們在特定的時間點為電池充電，在這些時間點，我們需要將所有電能排出，以平衡電網。

The thing is, I've driven electric cars on long trips before, and charging wasn't really a big problem.

問題是，我以前曾駕駛電動汽車進行過長途旅行，充電並不是什麼大問題。

It needs a little more planning than using fossil fuels, but turns out I want to rest at about the same interval that the car wants charging.

與使用化石燃料相比，這需要更多的計劃，但事實證明，我想休息的時間與汽車想充電的時間間隔差不多。

Folks out there who can drive eight hours in one go, good luck, but I am not one of you.

能一口氣開八個小時車的人，祝你們好運，但我不是你們中的一員。

The best way to charge a vehicle is at home if you have a socket, right?

如果家裡有插座，給汽車充電的最佳方式就是在家裡，不是嗎？

With EV becoming more affordable, there are more people who want to access an electric vehicle and don't have the opportunity to have a socket close to where they park their car.

隨著電動汽車的價格越來越低廉，越來越多的人希望使用電動汽車，但卻沒有機會在停車地點附近安裝插座。

Shanghai, a city with more than 20 million inhabitants, people live in big apartments, and so on-street charging is much less than in Europe.

上海是一個擁有 2000 多萬居民的城市，人們都住在大公寓裡，是以路邊充電比歐洲少得多。

People don't have access to home charging because it's a much more dense city.

人們無法使用家用充電設備，因為這座城市的人口密度要高得多。

PowerSwap offers a great opportunity to just leave your home, drive to the station, swap your battery, and continue your trip.

PowerSwap 為您提供了一個絕佳的機會，您只需離開家，開車到電站，更換電池，然後繼續旅行。

And of course, there is the catch that this battery swap station only works for cars that are built for it.

當然，還有一個問題是，這種電池交換站只適用於為其製造的汽車。

You can get a Neo battery swapped here, but there's no other car on the market that can use this.

您可以在這裡更換 Neo 電池，但市場上沒有其他汽車可以使用這種電池。

We have been signing strategic agreements with big groups like Chang'an and Geely Group.

我們已與長安汽車和吉利集團等大型集團簽署了戰略協議。

We have gained the confidence of also the other automakers.

我們也贏得了其他汽車製造商的信任。

There's an opportunity to standardise this technology in China, but perhaps also in Europe.

不僅在中國，或許在歐洲也有機會實現這一技術的標準化。

We're going to invest in battery-as-a-service, and we're going to invest in the PowerSwap network.

我們將投資電池即服務，投資 PowerSwap 網絡。

If you take the whole economics, we do believe that this is better than just selling a car.

如果從整個經濟學角度來看，我們確實認為這比單純賣車要好。

Plenty of people, electric vehicle enthusiasts, stockbrokers, people who bought Neo stock, have been running analyses on whether the company's financial model will work.

很多人，包括電動汽車愛好者、股票經紀人、購買 Neo 股票的人，都在分析該公司的財務模式是否可行。

Building these stations is incredibly expensive, and it's no secret that Neo is losing a staggering amount of money right now.

建造這些車站的成本高得驚人，而新奧現在的虧損額也大得驚人，這已經不是什麼祕密了。

But that's the way that colossal start-up companies and finance work these days.

但這就是如今大型新創公司和金融業的運作方式。

They hope the initial outlay will be worth it in the end.

他們希望最初的花費最終會物有所值。

That strategy has paid off for a lot of big corporations, and not paid off for many more.

很多大公司都採用了這種策略，但也有很多公司沒有采用。

I looked at a lot of those financial analyses while I was researching, and my conclusion is, I don't know, predicting anything about electric vehicles is almost impossible.

在研究過程中，我看了很多這些財務分析，我的結論是，我不知道，預測電動汽車的任何事情幾乎都是不可能的。

It's an industry filled with both radical inventions and broken promises.

在這個行業中，既有激進的發明，也有食言的承諾。

I'm just astonished that something I thought was science fiction does appear to be an actual, real-world option right now, and that a robot just swapped out my car battery.

我只是很驚訝，我以為是科幻小說的東西，現在卻成了現實世界中的實際選擇，而且一個機器人剛剛給我換了汽車電池。