NIO just did the expensive-to-automate part, it's not just theory... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w (T

NIO just did the expensive-to-automate part, it's not just theory... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w (Tom Scott demo/walkthrough.) Press release from April says https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/chinas-nio-to-expand-battery-swap-services-to-gain-ev-infra-edge-.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/chinas-nio-to-expand-battery... "it completed 40 million battery swaps" across 2300 stations. It still has to scale up from there and get traction from other car vendors beyond paper-only "partnerships"... but they've gotten vastly farther than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company) did before it failed 10 years ago.