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Immediate concern for me would be safety. My impression is the battery pack provides a lot of the rigidity necessary to keep the car in one piece, and swapping
by yingw787 6y ago
Immediate concern for me would be safety. My impression is the battery pack provides a lot of the rigidity necessary to keep the car in one piece, and swapping the battery out introduces new hazards.
There's also the concern about liability, whether the battery pack you're getting is as good as the one you're trading in (what if it's older and has a lower overall capacity), and how that might impact resale value.
Third would be logistics, keeping the flow of batteries through the stations and having enough batteries on hand to swap on demand, and keeping compatibility with different makes and models, is a challenge.
- patall 6y agoThat's why you would only use those for long distance trips and for everything else you would own that one old pack. Rigidity could indeed be a problem but so has been gasoline safety. There would need to be standards but there are also standards for charging plugs so, it is not like this never happened before.
- ianai 6y agoOr have a built in battery and battery swap bay. Both can happen and no reason not do have both.