CATL launches Chocolate Battery Butler, plans to build 6,000 battery swap stations covering 297 cities by 2027
IT Home, November 13 — CATL today launched the Chocolate Battery Butler, a visualized full-lifecycle battery detection system.
Users open the Chocolate battery swap App and tap Battery Butler to complete 53 checks on the vehicle; during battery swapping, another 13 in-depth checks are completed, for a total of 66 items covering key indicators such as state of charge (SOC), insulation status, thermal runaway risks, and voltage differentials.
According to the company, Battery Butler provides one-stop services: real-time battery status viewing, retrieval of detection reports, proactive anomaly alerts, one-tap maintenance, battery replacement and iterative upgrades, power usage report queries, and benefits management.
IT Home has learned that according to the plan, by 2027 Chocolate battery swap is expected to build 6,000 battery swap stations, covering 297 cities nationwide and achieving full coverage of prefecture-level cities and municipalities directly under the central government except Sansha City. Among them, 5,000 urban stations will create a 10-minute energy replenishment circle in core urban areas, and 1,000 highway stations will form an “11 vertical and 9 horizontal” highway battery swap network.

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