People who propose swaping EV batteries instead of on-site charging have no clue how EVs are put together. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
One of the fascinating things about all the problems with EVs is that people keep trying to come up with work-arounds rather than concede EVs are the problem – and stop trying to find work arounds. The solution to the problem of EVs is to abandon them – as people did a century ago, when it became clear the way to avoid the problems you got when you owned an EV was to drive something that wasn’t an EV – and didn’t have the problems.
This apparently takes time to penetrate some people’s heads.
Meanwhile, some people continue to look for “solutions” to the EV’s two main problems – their short-leash driving range and their long recharge times. These are compound problems, too. If it didn’t take so long to recharge an EV – best case scenario, at least 20-30 minutes at what some people have been taught to refer to as a “fast” charger, to get a partial (80 percent) charge – then it wouldn’t be a problem even if they could only go 200 or so miles before running low on charge.
At least, it would not be a serious problem – if you could get going again in five minutes or less with a fully charged battery.
Conversely, having to wait for 20-30 minutes to recover a partial charge would be less of a problem if an EV’s battery pack were capable of storing enough electricity to provide enough power to go at least 600 miles in between charges. Not 20 percent less than whatever’s indicated – as is generally true.
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