Battery swapping is all the rage over in China and other parts of Southeast Asia - mostly for the hundreds of millions of electric scooters in that part of the world, but increasingly also now for electrically powered cars and trucks. Now the world's largest battery maker has waded in with a game changing initiative. And the Chinese behemoths are targeting Europe and the US too.
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