Stellantis plans battery-swapping partnership with U.S. start-up Ample

Fiat 500 Ample Stellantis battery swap — A Fiat New 500 EV in an Ample swapping station. A robotic system removes discharged battery modules from below and replaces them with full ones in about five minutes.

December 07, 2023 03:23 PM

PARIS -- Stellantis has signed a partnership agreement with Ample, a U.S. battery-swap company, to use its technology in the automaker’s vehicles, starting with a car-sharing fleet of Fiat New 500 EVs in Madrid next year.

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