Battery swapping is a technology that could solve one key barrier for EV adoption: consumers’ range anxiety and the long waiting time for battery charging. Wouldn’t you feel more assured on a weekend trip if you knew you could stop at a swap station and replace depleted battery packs with fully charged ones in five minutes? But this isn’t easy to do, as Tesla and Better Place’s past failures. In China, however, battery swapping has been a reality for a couple of years. How did Chinese companies like Nio make it work with 2,300 swapping stations nationwide? What can companies outside China learn from the Chinese experience?

See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Gas is more like pas-as-you-go. Battery no so sure. And they are different by nature: gas can’t be reused, batteries can.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        The energy inside both can’t be reused. Both a gas tank and battery can be refilled.

        Gas is just easier to transfer between containers. Electricity needs it be moved inside its container.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Electricity is incredibly easy to move between containers. That’s how electric cars work.

          Making charging faster by removing most of the range (because you have way less volume to use if it’s removable) and making a cheap power source obscenely expensive makes no sense.