EV Battery Swapping

The cluster discusses the viability of battery swapping as a fast-charging alternative for electric vehicles, including advantages like speed, challenges such as battery degradation, standardization, structural integration, and past efforts like Tesla's abandoned program.

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TeMPOraL Oct 3, 2018 View on HN

It's possible if you allow for battery swapping.

p1necone Dec 2, 2023 View on HN

Couldn't you just design a car with swappable batteries and achieve the same result?

Hasz Jan 6, 2018 View on HN

It seems like battery swapping would be a viable alternative here. The packs are only ~17kWh

adgjlsfhk1 Oct 18, 2023 View on HN

swap-able battery is probably the answer here. You don't need the structural rigidity of a car and you have a truck/garage to store the other battery in.

smugma Jul 29, 2023 View on HN

Battery swap probably makes more sense here.

wlll Mar 22, 2017 View on HN

Tesla style battery swap perhaps?

snovv_crash Jul 21, 2021 View on HN

They can do a battery swap while unloading and send it back immediately

meric Mar 16, 2018 View on HN

It's a reasonable idea if car batteries become easily swappable.

sbierwagen Jul 10, 2014 View on HN

Have they rolled out battery swapping yet?

adenadel Jul 30, 2018 View on HN

Possibly stupid question: Would battery swaps be a reasonable solution to this?