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.

Tesla built the model S so that was possible but it turned out nobody wanted to do it.

The battery is a large part of the cost of the car and people used to over estimate how quickly they degraded so people didn’t want to swap their nice new one out for some other guys cruddy old one.