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I dont understand why people are talking about charging times. You would think that swapping batteries would be a trivial fix for that problem. It could even be
by pineaux 3y ago
I dont understand why people are talking about charging times. You would think that swapping batteries would be a trivial fix for that problem. It could even be done by large batches of relatively-easy-to-handle battery packs. You could even preload all the luggage together with the battery packs in packages get hung/inserted in the plane from underneath in minutes.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoIf it was such a no-brainer solution why nobody is doing it? Clearly there must be more to it.
- spacebanana7 3y agoBattery swapping didn’t make sense for electric cars because the battery itself constituted so much of the cost of an electric car. It’s cheaper to buy two electric cars than to buy one + a spare battery, taking into account the labour cost of performing frequent battery swaps. I’d guess similar economics applies to electric planes, although I admittedly don’t have a strong source to cite.