Companies are taking big losses and making moves to reduce electric-vehicle capacity amid regulatory changes and cooling demand
Companies are taking big losses and making moves to reduce electric-vehicle capacity amid regulatory changes and cooling demand
I really wish we had gone with the idea Tesla originally pitched 10 years ago, where you would drive up on a platform, a robotic arm would remove the empty battery, it would slide in a fully charged battery, and you’d be on your way. I really feel like the future of EV would be when you buy the car, it comes with entitled access to to fully charged ones whenever you need.
Nio is the only car manufacturer that has swappable batteries at scale, they just celebrated their 100 millonth swap.
But on the other hand, the latest gen of evs are doing the usual 10%-80% percent at under 20 minutes and that is with 100kWh+ batteries.
It’s really unnecessary cost and complexity. There’s no reason for it
Even without counting the newest high speed charging vehicles
I really don’t see how swappable batteries would help with charging speed or cost, by any noticeable amount
Even worse, how could you scale out? We’re already taking way too long building out chargers that are arguably just a power outlet. How could we possibly add the inventory problems of a different battery per vehicle, special automated lifts able to handle like a ton of battery, and scale it out to every highest, city, town? It’s just not possible
One of Musk’s ADHD moments.
I think battery tech will greatly improve. Internal combustion has been refined for at least 120 years and intensively since 1950. Too bad we were focused on one time use fuels instead of rechargeables/solar
If I didn’t have that regular trip, I’d sell my gasser and rent a car for long trips. I already do that if it’s multi day.