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Facts are in. Takes 3 minutes to swap out an empty battery with a fully charged one.
Don't worry about EV batteries. Worry about why you don't know about automated battery swapping.
Why don't you swap your smartphone battery each day?
Oh, because it charges overnight so you don't have too?
Wouldn't it be great if you could charge an EV overnight too!!!
Because we were not talking about my phone.
What you've been doing every day so far doesn't depend on what we've been saying here on Lemmy this week.
Correct. Which also has nothing at all to do with my comment. Try and focus.
If you focused yourself, you'd understand that battery swapping is not more practical than home charging.
Only if you own a house. Overnight charging at an apartment is a shit show 95% of the time.
I agree with you that all houses should be charging an EV or two.
If you live in an apartment, talk to your landlord. (If you don't, it isn't really your problem is it ...)
There's nothing to worry about. We EV users know about swapping and we prefer overnight home charging, by far.
While that technology does exist, it is not present on the vast majority of EVs. It does not answer any questions, nor solve any problems, for anyone that owns or is considering buying one of them.
(And for the record, that solution creates a ton of problems on its own that you're overlooking)
Yes. It does.
So in Delhi there are multiple battery swapping stations for electric rickshaws.
I haven't looked into them in detail, but they are there and at least they seem to be working for that condition.
I haven't seen anyone in the process of swapping, but there is no service person, so self-service and I would assume they just manually pick up the battery and put it in place.
Of course, won't work for most cars though.