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Couldn't you just design a car with swappable batteries and achieve the same result?

• kalleboo 3y ago
  There must be some reason that approximately zero car manufacturers have any appetite in making swappable batteries.
  • Turskarama 3y ago
    The single biggest reason is that it locks you in, and unless it becomes a standard it's basically useless since people would probably need to go to a dealer to get a battery swap. For the average driver of a BEV, they are rarely going to need a fast charger anyway since just charging at home overnight is good enough for 95% of driving. That's less of a problem for fleet operators, they could actually have a bunch of batteries at their business sites spread all over a city so a battery swap is never too far away. Fleet vehicles also do more km in a day than the average private vehicle as well, so they WOULD need to use fast chargers a lot more often.
    • ianai 3y ago
      The economics of battery swaps are actually very good. But it’s a situation where a large amount of people would need to agree on a standard. Those sorts of cross industry agreements seem in short supply these days. Reminds me of getting every company to agree for standards in the semi industry.
• ephbit 3y ago
  This exists. I think in China. See video here: https://mastodon.green/@FabianLaasch/110083147601165341 https://mastodon.green/@FabianLaasch/110083147601165341 Linked as well: https://www.theautopian.com/china-is-already-doing-ev-battery-swapping-and-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/ https://www.theautopian.com/china-is-already-doing-ev-batter...