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Cloaked42m t1_j1uccia wrote

Reply to comment by thefifeman in Battery swapping spurs Kenya's electric motorbike drive by For_All_Humanity

Edited my comment to allow for that.

Standardized shapes of car batteries plus full service stations. It would allow for you to have your battery changed out in 5 minutes and be back on the road. Plus create entry level jobs.

It would make EVs cheaper now that you know you aren't on the hook to pay tens of thousands to replace a battery.

Truck stops could have specialized systems to take care of the bigguns, or it could just be multiples of D type car batteries.

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LiquidVibes t1_j1uf5ah wrote

Bro you are ignoring the true issue here: EV companies are insanely battery constrained. For this to work you would need to produce 10x more batteries than cars as you need to have a shitton available at each swapping station

It’s just not possible in a battery constrained environment

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doctorzoom t1_j1uoy9j wrote

If you could charge them fast enough, you'd only need a small amount of batteries at the swap points.

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Cloaked42m t1_j1ug27e wrote

It's not possible with the 'types' of batteries we use.

If you went with smaller, replaceable batteries, that maybe aren't as efficient, then you could do it.

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LiquidVibes t1_j1ui8ml wrote

Could be possible with the new LFP batteries Tesla started using, they are very cheap and easy to produce as they are mostly just a block of iron.

The issue as you pointed out is that range will be very impacted. This is bad for adoption as 90% of charging is done at home anyways.

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Cloaked42m t1_j1ujy6k wrote

Redesign so you have a dozen batteries, but smaller, and load them like rifle rounds. You can stop at a station to 'fill up'.

An attendant comes up to your car, offloads batteries, goes and exchanges them for good batteries. Then comes back and loads up the good ones. Car shuffles them as needed, you pay your bill, and off you go.

You could even automate the process with self driving cars. They pick a nearby station, go to it, lines you up with the service gantry.

An automated process goes through the whole thing. You get an option to get out of your car to go to the store (with ads) while the process is going on.

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Miguel-odon t1_j20emwc wrote

If there was a standardized battery for them to design around, wouldn't that make it easier? You wouldn't need 10x

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