Sounds like you're underestimating the underlying logistics of swapping out huge/heavy battery packs. If you use the throughput (trucks refueled per period of

Sounds like you're underestimating the underlying logistics of swapping out huge/heavy battery packs. If you use the throughput (trucks refueled per period of time) of a conventional gas station as a benchmark to compare the battery pack swapping station with and try to think of all the additional difficulties you might see why I'm skeptical about the swapping of batteries, even when automated. * Handling of liquid fuel is vastly less complicated than moving around heavy battery packs * Space requirements are much bigger (because of volumetric energy density) with battery packs * Battery packs may very well need to be transported to and from swapping stations, whereas fuel only goes to stations All in all, seems to me that the flexibility that everyone is used to with liquid fuels is near unattainable with battery swapping. I'm very inclined to bet that we'll be relying on liquid fuels for quite a number of years to come. Might be methanol for electeic vehicles equipped with methanol fuel cells or maybe even formic acid. Hydrogen, I'm skeptical about it. Too much of a hassle.