Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips

Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by smt88 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:06AM (#29440890)

Adding millions of chargers to city streets is an insane way to solve charger shortages.

It makes much more sense (and would be much cheaper) for the govt to mandate interchangeable batteries, so you could just go to a gas station and swap out a battery instead.

The stations already exist where you need them and only need one charger for all the batteries.

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Re:Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon car... by FredPret on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:48AM (#29441139)

That would also remove range anxiety for me.

However, this will only work if batteries become smaller and more energy-dense - because they are huge and heavy, electric cars today are built around them. This causes two problems:

You can’t easily remove them because they’re big and have to be built into the structure of the car, and are sometimes lod-bearing, and each car model has a different shape of battery.

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