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Battery swapping seems crazy. Batteries have a wide range of values depending on performance, age, charge cycles etc. Why would I want to swap out my brand new
by retube 4y ago
Battery swapping seems crazy. Batteries have a wide range of values depending on performance, age, charge cycles etc. Why would I want to swap out my brand new very expensive battery for some old crusty piece of crap?
Plus, they're presumably very heavy. How easy is it for the elderly / infirm to manage?
- bryanlarsen 4y agoYou don't own your NIO batteries, you just lease them. So you don't care if they're new or old as long as they work. They aren't manually swapped, robots do all the work.
- oldgradstudent 4y agoBut if you mistreated your battery, you'd definitely want to swap. I don't see how battery swapping doesn't result in a race to the bottom.
- mc32 4y agoA potential solution would be to provide "batteries as a service" when a car is bought. You'd not be paying for a battery per se but rather for the battery service with some performance guarantees where you pay a base monthly and mileage fee -or something to that effect.
- djaychela 4y agoThe batteries are leased in this case, so aside from any other issues, that won't really be a problem. They're heavy, which is why a mechanism changes the battery. No human could swap an EV battery without mechanical assistance - they're all in the 400Kg + territory! You drive up to the station, and the machine does it for you.