Earlier this week, NIO had announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation deal with Shell. With the new partnership, two companies will work together in the field of electric vehicle energy.

According to a PanDaily report, the Chinese EV making startup and Shell will jointly build and operate charging and battery swap stations across the globe. Furthermore, the companies plan to make around 100 battery swap facilities as well in China by the year 2025. Similarly, the cooperation will have both firms operate pilot stations next year in Europe. Through this deal, the charging station from Shell in Europe will also be available to NIO EV customers, as per the press release.

Apart from just collaborating for these new battery swap stations, the carmaker and the world’s largest gasoline retailer will also work together in other fields like battery asset management, fleet management, membership systems, home charging services, advanced battery charging and swap technology development. In China, the companies will even look to build new charging facilities as well.

As of right now, the America based oil giant is placing its focus on new energy power. It plans to have these new energy power also be a part of its leading fuel services. István Kapitány, Global Executive Vice President of Shell Mobility, “Decarbonization is a common global challenge, one which requires extensive and multi-faceted global solutions. This cooperation means that we’ll offer Shell Recharge high-speed charging at NIO locations and make battery swapping available at convenient Shell locations while also offering NIO customers our best home and business charging solutions.”

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OnePlus is apparently working on a new feature for its smartphones. The company is working on adding a new software function that will allow users to find public charging stations, that will allow for a quick battery charge when outside.

The new function was discovered by a senior member of XDADevelopers. A new string of functions was uncovered in the Settings app within Android 11 Beta 1 for the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. The description for these strings indicates that the company is working on building a network of public Charging Stations to help its users get a quick charge when on the move.

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These charging stations will be equipped with BLE beacons that will allow them to broadcast their location to nearby OnePlus smartphone users. These charging stations will support fast charging rates, with graphics assets that suggest the same also being discovered in the Settings app. Unfortunately, it is currently unknown when the company will announce this new Charging Station network.

Although, its deployment has already started. A Twitter user shared an image of the new Charging Stations that were found in the Bengaluru Airport, India. Looking at the image, the OnePlus brand logo can be spotted under which the Warp Charge designation is etched. The charging station also has two USB ports along with a standard universal charging plug.

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