## Geely Gets 30% of NIO Power Battery swapping has been a concept for electric vehicles for much longer than I’ve been covering the technology (which is more than 14 years). Better Place launched and grew, and then went bankrupt. Some other battery swapping trials have come and gone much more quietly. And then there’s NIO. NIO went big on the battery swapping idea, vastly dwarfing any other efforts historically. But did it make sense? Was NIO an outlier because it identified and implemented the benefits of a system everyone else ignored or gave up on? Or was NIO an outlier because it liked…