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> So how come they aren't making car (EV) batteries replaceable? I don't think 500 kg batteries can ever be easily and quickly user-replaceable, no matter what
by seszett 3y ago
> So how come they aren't making car (EV) batteries replaceable?
I don't think 500 kg batteries can ever be easily and quickly user-replaceable, no matter what the EU mandates.
You should complain about the laws of physics (or the weakness of humans) rather than make this ridiculous comparison.
- openplatypus 3y agoThere is a manufacturer that has automatic battery replacement station. You drive up. Battery bank is swapped and in 5 minutes you drive of fully charged. It is coming. It won't happen overnight.
- rolph 3y agoGM was prototyping a two part platform concept. the chassis was drivetrain, and engine in one unit and body/cabin, a separate unit that anchored on. there was to be few chassis types, and many body types.
- ulfw 3y agoAnd yet Nio is doing it already. How "ridiculous"! https://www.nio.com/nio-power https://www.nio.com/nio-power
- seszett 3y agoThe point of the EU directive is too have easily user-replaceable batteries in phones, EV batteries will never be easily user-replaceable as long as they are heavier than what a human can lift. Swappable EV batteries are not a new thing and Renault (an EU company, thus) has done it for a long time (with mixed success though) but it's totally incomparable with this law on phone batteries.