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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.