Battery swapping is a technology that could solve one key barrier for EV adoption: consumers’ range anxiety and the long waiting time for battery charging. Wouldn’t you feel more assured on a weekend trip if you knew you could stop at a swap station and replace depleted battery packs with fully charged ones in five minutes? But this isn’t easy to do, as Tesla and Better Place’s past failures. In China, however, battery swapping has been a reality for a couple of years. How did Chinese companies like Nio make it work with 2,300 swapping stations nationwide? What can companies outside China learn from the Chinese experience?

See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    it comes with removable batteries which you can charge on your own

    so it is your battery and got additional batteries you can swap on the road with a subscription? That looks promising.

    However, this works for scooters is because the battery pack is small enough for hand carry and install. It won’t be on typical 4-wheel vehicles as those are about a thousand pound. Even if we can modular and miniaturize it like how Gogoro does, where to install it is a big problem. Obviously we can’t install it in the front compartment as that will be a fire hazard when crash.

    • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      so it is your battery and got additional batteries you can swap on the road with a subscription?

      No, you don’t get additional batteries. Once you start using the swapping service, the battery that came with your scooter goes into circulation. I suppose when you decide to stop subscribing to the service, the batteries that you have currently will be yours to keep. (I don’t own a Gogoro btw)

      Yeah, and I agree that this system works great with scooters but not for cars.

      • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Shame. It will be nice if I get a set of batteries I know well when the scooter used less frequently and charging at home makes more sense. Ratger gambling on what’s the quality/wear level of the next set will be.

        Guess that’s how they introduce new batteries into the system, and cost them lesser. As long as there are new scooter owners and using the service, there will always be new batteries entering the circulation. All they have to do is pull out old batteries not fit for using out of the loop, and maybe repurpose them for something else, like grid power storage system.

        • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Ratger gambling on what’s the quality/wear level of the next set will be.

          You shouldn’t need to worry about getting bad batteries. Since it’s priced at an Ah/month basis (there are also km ridden per month plans), you can swap batteries whenever you feel like it. It is on Gogoro to maintain the health of the batteries, and swap in new ones when they go bad (or upgrade battery versions!).

          All they have to do is pull out old batteries not fit for using out of the loop, and maybe repurpose them for something else, like grid power storage system.

          That’s the idea!