[L-four]

Dictatorships don't care if things are practical.

[blitzar]

That is a harsh characterisation of the work done by Tesla.

[nextaccountic]

Battery swapping isn't some top-down authoritarian decision made by the CCP and forced into the Chinese society.

Nio is just a company that's providing a much needed solution to this problem.

[daedrdev]

They also have 2% ev marketshare in China, because its still an expensive and complex feature that has downsides that the previous comment mentioned. Like these high energy batteries are dangerous as the can burn quite spectacularly, so I personally would not want to take and remove one from my car every charge hen I can wait a few minutes at a regular charging station that is much more common than a replacing station.

[L-four]

I agree, but there are aggressive subsidies around electric vehicles and general graft. Similar things happen in most countries but in dictatorships things can go to absurd levels when it aligns with the current policy.

[n0n0n4t0r]

America is now also a dictatorship according to many foreigners (all but russia maybe ).

[tim333]

Working on it but there are still elections scheduled.