“Personally I’ve always thought the way to charge a car would be to switch the battery to a charged one. The charge time is just too long. This would require universal batteries and a fast way to switch them. Just throwin it out there”
My actual Rocket Scientist BiL has been saying that for years.
My addition was that the manufacturer doesn’t even provide a battery. You lease the right to use batteries from a separate company that specializes in batteries and “Switch Stations”.
No more need for manufacturers to make batteries or warranty them. Wearing them out wouldn’t be an issue, replacement cost would be added to the lease, just like a rental car, but you are spreading that cost over millions of drivers.
“My actual Rocket Scientist BiL has been saying that for years.
My addition was that the manufacturer doesn’t even provide a battery. You lease the right to use batteries from a separate company that specializes in batteries and “Switch Stations”.”
The reason why even Tesla doesn’t discuss it is because you’d have to depreciated the cost of the batteries with each swap-out, and that cost is about twice the cost of the power to charge them...and roughly makes their per-mile driving cost no different than gasoline engines, thereby losing its main advantage (other than bragging rights at parties).
So, not going to happen.