• evenglow@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Facts are in. Takes 3 minutes to swap out an empty battery with a fully charged one.

    Don’t worry about EV batteries. Worry about why you don’t know about automated battery swapping.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      While that technology does exist, it is not present on the vast majority of EVs. It does not answer any questions, nor solve any problems, for anyone that owns or is considering buying one of them.

      (And for the record, that solution creates a ton of problems on its own that you’re overlooking)

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        4 months ago

        So in Delhi there are multiple battery swapping stations for electric rickshaws.
        I haven’t looked into them in detail, but they are there and at least they seem to be working for that condition.

        I haven’t seen anyone in the process of swapping, but there is no service person, so self-service and I would assume they just manually pick up the battery and put it in place.

        Of course, won’t work for most cars though.