The only problem I have with the current ideas for battery swaps is that they are still very proprietary so would only affect a small set of vehicles. The most universal alternatives I’ve seen have to be hauled as trailers.
I think that rather than one singular battery swap idea, it should be a standard where anyone can make one, just as long as it fits in the trunk and can be secured and connected into a standardized high voltage port in the trunk that wouldn’t have to be that different from the current ones being used. The problem then would be trying to force companies to retrofit older models. Maybe there will be more of an incentive to have something like this when EV batteries begin dying out after 20+ years with cars that are otherwise perfectly fine to drive.
I know a guy who started a company to do exactly this (in Europe only for now).
So the battery swap idea is out there, and being acted upon.
The only problem I have with the current ideas for battery swaps is that they are still very proprietary so would only affect a small set of vehicles. The most universal alternatives I’ve seen have to be hauled as trailers.
I think that rather than one singular battery swap idea, it should be a standard where anyone can make one, just as long as it fits in the trunk and can be secured and connected into a standardized high voltage port in the trunk that wouldn’t have to be that different from the current ones being used. The problem then would be trying to force companies to retrofit older models. Maybe there will be more of an incentive to have something like this when EV batteries begin dying out after 20+ years with cars that are otherwise perfectly fine to drive.