re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Whatever happened to the plan to have cars install standard batteries which you can simply stop and swap out at a recharging station, leaving the old battery and just paying a charging fee? That would take no longer than filling a tank with gasoline.

The batteries are molded into the bottom of the chassis for each car. It’s true that each car’s battery is made up of many smaller cells, but it isn’t feasible to change them individually or in groups. It’ll never be as easy as a fill-up or a quick charge.

This probably isn’t pursued because capacity and charging circuits are being rapidly improved so that it isn’t worth the extra infrastructure costs that swappable batteries would incur.