Fancy a 'rubbish' Battery in exchange for your new one?
A recharged Battery swap for your EV?
The latest twist to the great EV folly is the proposal to provide 'Battery Swap' facilities. Here, you 'exchange' your own flat battery for a charged one. Ok so far?
But....
The problem is most EV batteries are built into the car, secondly they vary in size and shape, thirdly they are bloody heavy, up to 1 ton and also require expert disconnection.
Reconnection may mean that all your personal vehicle settings may be lost if not retained externally on some device.
Worst of all is that if your own battery is nearly new, you might then get an exchange one that is somewhat aged and below par in performance and storage of power.
If you are stuck with a badly aged battery that they won't take in exchange, your car is effectively scrap unless you shell out a ton of money to buy a new battery.
Its a lose lose all round I think.
That is if the supply of rare earth elements are going to exist that long to supply the need for all these mythical replacement batteries that are going to be needed.
More reasons that this folly should be dumped as soon as possible!
