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How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work (hbr.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Gsus4@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)

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[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

52% of all trips made are less than 3 miles and less than 2% are over fifty miles

I got a Chevy Volt based on this premise, and it's true! I barely touched my car's ICE until I moved further out into the sticks (running away from rising rents) and even way out here most of my trips are to the grocery store or post office and don't need it.

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I was looking at the Volt a couple years ago but the only ones around were over 25k. Then I started looking for a BMW i3, but, like so many of the cheaper EVs, there's not many for sale. It's a shame these smaller vehicles, even a hybrid, aren't pumped out the factories left, right, and centre.

It'd be so much safer - and quieter - in the city if smaller cars were more pervasive.