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What about not owning the battery but just paying for its usage? ( Please do not read my reply as aggressive / arrogant as I am genuinely interested in hearing

• haxen 8y ago
  Yes, as I wrote the previous comment that stood out as the "obvious fix". However, there are many other hurdles to this model, like handling all the logistics behind the batteries: charging them up, shipping them around as demand requires, manning each station because the physical process of battery swapping is not 100% reliable, and so on. This would cause the costs to rise and there would be far fewer such stations compared to supercharging stations. And people just don't have a problem with stopping for a 20-minute charge. Then there's the huge showstopper issue of the tragedy of the commons. People would lose the incentive to care for their batteries, they'd charge them to 100%, wouldn't care about their temperature, would do all kinds of abuse and then go for a replacement. This goes back to the initial argument of batteries not being as fungible as, say, gas.
  • J_cst 8y ago
    Thank for sharing your opinion, really appreciated.