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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by beamatronic on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:01PM (#28546607)
Tesla actually had a battery swapping machine at one point, I think it was at the Kettleman City location. There's no reason the battery and charging infrastructure can't be leveraged for all passenger vehicles. The battery on your electric vehicle should be like the propane tank on your gas grill - just swap it out when you need to. (This doesn't preclude recharging it)

Not to mention, when the battery reaches the end of its normal life cycle. Just goes straight into the recycling pipeline.

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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by thesausageking on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:25PM (#28546803)
Tesla's swapping machine was just for tax credits. It was never built to be something they'd sell to customers. They built that one demo location and then abandoned battery swapping completely as not viable.
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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:41AM (#28549717)
If they legitimately cared instead of faking it they could probably do better. Especially if the target is a maintenance-style machine setup rather than a 30 second gas station rival setup.
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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by clouddrover on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:13PM (#28546697)
Nio's cars support battery swaps:

https://electrek.co/2021/07/09/nio-plan-open-battery-swap-st...

You can rent the batteries and upgrade and downgrade the capacity as you like. It also makes it easy to replace the battery in the future if you buy it outright.

They offer 70 and 100 kWh packs now. They're aiming for 150 kWh packs next year:

https://insideevs.com/news/465188/nio-150-kwh-solid-state-ba...

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