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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 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When a driver enters their automated station, the station will connect directly to the vehicle, drive and park it at the platform, have the depleted battery be dropped out from the bottom of the vehicle and replaced it with a fully charged battery while charging the user’s account — all within three minutes. The driver doesn’t even need to control or step out of the car.

That's really cool, although I maintain that for urban travel the scooters with the hot-swappable battery under the seat are the ideal solution.

[–] labsin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

There was a scooter sharing company that drove around, swapping the batteries. It went out of business and now there are only the Bird style scooters.

If there were battery swapping stations, I'd definitely by me a bike.