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Yes battery swap is a thing, https://youtu.be/hNZy603as5w?si=aUEqoZg-9jAwd-Gr
Yes battery swap is a thing, https://youtu.be/hNZy603as5w?si=aUEqoZg-9jAwd-Gr
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Are any car companies developing swappable battery cars? Would obviously need massive infrastructure development but just daydreaming here: you could have cars where the whole battery pack could drop out of the bottom of the car. You pull up to a petrol station or services and like an auto car wash, the wheels are lined up in a track and an automated machine lifts out your battery and replaces with a fully charged one. You can go from empty to 400 miles range in 30 seconds. Nobody ever has to recharge at home. You pay a small monthly battery rental fee.
Would really open up the possibilities for long range HGVs too.
And you get rid of the problem of 10 year old cars having shit batteries and becoming worthless. As the battery isn't a part of the car. EVs could run indefinitely on the maintained network of batteries