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A robot just swapped my electric car's battery (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Originally posted on [email protected].

Tom Scott's latest video seems relevant to this community. Swappable batteries is an interesting concept, though it remains to be seen if it can compete with the proliferation of DC fast chargers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If Nio can successfully persuade other manufacturers to adopt their battery swap standard, I can see battery swapping becoming mainstream. With the ability to easily replace a worn out or obsolete battery, depreciation becomes much less of an issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The issue is all of the swap schemes make you take your charged battery back, or you have to lease a battery from the manufacturer. The financial aspect doesn't really make sense for most people, I suspect, until battery rental/leasing is much cheaper.