What you need to know about e-bike battery swapping

• E-bike battery swapping lets riders swap a depleted battery for a fully charged one at a dedicated station in under a minute, removing battery management from the working day entirely.

• Standard e-bike batteries take several hours to charge. For couriers and commercial fleet riders, that wait time comes directly out of earning time.

• 3 in 4 lithium-ion battery fires start during the charging phase, according to the IFS (Institut für Schadenverhütung und Schadenforschung, March 2024). SmartSwapping moves that risk out of homes and shared buildings and into fire-rated infrastructure built to contain it.

• PowerShelter's SmartSwapping network is battery-agnostic: compatible with any certified battery or charger, so riders and operators are not locked into a single brand.

• SmartSwapping is currently live in Amsterdam and Berlin, with Paris and London coming soon.