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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by stephengillie on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:11AM (#15959927)
The size of battery needed to propel a full-size car makes swapping mechanically prohibitive. It would be like swapping a 4U rackmount server loaded with HDDs.
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:21AM (#15959980)
It's doable, I've seen prototypes where you just drive your car onto a platform and robots do the replacing.
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