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Battery swapping – replacing a depleted battery with a freshly charged one – is not new: The first experiments with exchanging batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) date to the late 1890s, according to industrial historian David A Kirsch. Here is a timeline of key events in the development of battery swapping: 1896: Auto pioneers consider the exchange of depleted batteries with fresh ones as a way to extend the operating range of early rudimentary EVs, from streetcars to delivery trucks. 1912: General Electric launches a “battery service” that enables EV owners to swap batteries for a modest monthly fee and a variable per-mile charge. Other similar services spring up in large cities. Semi-mechanised swaps take as little as three minutes at some stations. And by separating the battery from the vehicle, the service helps lower the initial cost by a third or more. 1924: General Electric's GeVeCo battery service is discontinued. Waning demand for EVs and the lack of interest in industry-wide battery standardisation stall further development of battery swapping for more than 80 years. 2007: Silicon Valley startup Better Place develops a “battery switching” process and signs up Renault-Nissan for pilot projects in several countries. 2008: The Beijing Olympics showcase a fleet of 50 electric buses featuring swappable batteries. China's Wanxiang demonstrates an electric bus with swappable batteries at the Games. 2010: Better Place is invited to meet with officials of the state-owned China Grid to discuss battery swapping. China Grid ends the talks without a deal. 2013: The same issues that helped kill the decades-earlier GeVeCo service, notably lack of interest by consumers and vehicle manufacturers, catch up to Better Place. After raising – and burning through – more than $600 million in investors' money in just six years, the company files for bankruptcy. 2013: Tesla offers a limited battery swap service for the new Model S, which was designed from the start to accommodate swappable batteries. The swapping process is arduous (“a pain in the ass,” a former Tesla executive said) and the pilot programme is quietly retired in 2015. Tesla CEO Elon Musk orders his team instead to turn its attention to building out a proprietary network of charging stations called “superchargers.” 2014: Nio is established in China, with satellite operations in the US and Europe. In 2017, it announces a plan to offer customers the option of swappable batteries, a service that it begins in 2018. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shubham-ojha/message

Safe cities' level of privacy remains a core concern, as indicated by the recent resignation of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs' Director of Privacy Ann Cavoukian. The application of blockchain to smart cities can protect user privacy, said Vincent Wang, Chief Innovation Officer of Wanxiang Group.

Safe cities' level of privacy remains a core concern, as indicated by the recent resignation of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs' Director of Privacy Ann Cavoukian. The application of blockchain to smart cities can protect user privacy, said Vincent Wang, Chief Innovation Officer of Wanxiang Group.

Big ones MyBank was formed by Ant Financial and Fosun in 2015, and now the big data and AI-enhanced online lending platform is reportedly seeking about $870m in a round that could include both corporates at a $3.5bn valuation. Its other existing investors include Wanxiang, a contributor to the $644m the company received at the … Continue reading "05 August 2019 – MyBank Seeks $870m at $3.5bn Valuation"

Join us today as we speak with Amit Aysola from Wanxiang Healthcare Investments about digital health trends.

**In Brief:** Chinese multinational, Wanxiang Group, has purchased over 700 hectares of land on which to build a smart city where it plans to experiment with blockchain based systems. Wanxiang Group is a Chinese multinational focused primarily on automotive parts manufacturing. Recently Wanxiang has been moving into finance and agriculture. Now, with the establishment of the Wanxiang Blockchain Labs research organization and Fenbushi Capital investment fund, Wanxiang is making big moves into the blockchain space. To add to the intrigue, the group recently purchased 770 hectares of land in the Chinese province of Hangzhou where it plans to build a “smart city”. The goal is to house it's many employees in a setting that makes use of it's technological portfolio. Andy Dan, Project Manager of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs joins to discuss what is quickly becoming the most epic of blockchain stories. http://www.blockchainlabs.org/ http://fenbushi.vc/ Content: Andy Dan, Arthur Falls

- Record Recalls Hurt OEMs - EU Carmakers Ahead of Emission Schedule - JCI Spins Off Interiors Unit - Toyota Verso-S Updates - No Plans for Mercedes Subcompact - BMW Plans Mexico Plant - Wanxiang Goes All In with Fisker - How GM Benefits From Motorsports

- MINI Goes Dutch - Wanxiang Wins Fisker Bid - New Ford F-150 Seats Lighter - GM to Restore Sinkhole Corvettes - European Market on the Mend - Germany’s Top 10 Sellers - Peugeot’s All-New 108 - Corvette Uses Nano-Technology

Fiat reported its 2012 financial earnings, and the results look pretty good, as long as you include Chrysler. Automakers are having a tough time selling EVs but that isn’t stopping California; it is not backing down from its zero emission mandate. Yesterday we reported that Fisker is desperately trying to find a deep-pocket partner and now it looks like the company might have one. All that and more, plus John McElroy has a look into what the 2014 Subaru Forester is all about.