Awesome Tips See the Fastest Way to Recharge an Electric Car
It doesn’t involve a super fast charger, but rather a complete or partial battery swap by a robot. It’s also an interesting way to get the right amount of range for your driving needs.
It doesn’t involve a super fast charger, but rather a complete or partial battery swap by a robot. It’s also an interesting way to get the right amount of range for your driving needs.
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so even if these stations are all over the country it probably takes 10-20 minutes to swap a whole vehicle imagine the wait line even if they have multiple stations you'll wait 2 hours to have a swap in busy cities where you could have gone home and just plugged it in it still takes me 2 minutes yo fill up at the gas station and burn less coal and mine less resources to make these batteries
Good luck doing this at home. Good luck finding no-employee 24-hour stations. Good luck getting enough batteries to keep several of them in stock.
This would be great for apartment dwellers, like myself. I’d love to get an EV but don’t have access to a charger in my building.
The nio electric car company battery swapper nice bought time it came to us
Swapping batteries is a great pr stunt. Say you bought a brand new electric car. You're going to swap your brand new battery for a used battery knowing that your brand new battery is now in circulation and you might never get it again. All because you couldn't wait 40 minutes?
“Need a 50% charge? Swap half the battery trays” – Pretty sure that’s not how that works. At all.
No way am I tradi g the most expensive part of my car, which has been babied its entire life, for one of unknown provenance.
Things will be so much simpler, when we have MR. FUSION home energy reactors 💥
What's the point? My ev charges to 80% in 20 mins. That is really not bad at all. I just go and get a soda/latte and come back and it's nearly done.
Some charging stations breakdown or give you a very low charge either because sharing or the weather and the temps of the battery. If it's like a rapid bodyshop that can charge your EV quicker than charging at some station that's not a super charger I think it could work, and I hope one of these car companies give it a try.
Battery swapping is the fastest way. There are many ways to engineer this.
Why can't we change our phones or computers batteries but do it for cars? That's the question to ask those companies, all of them.
The story missed a lot pieces…cost, time, etc.
Make a portable one and steal others batteries making the car useless
Bro, even phones got rid of replaceable batteries. This is not going to fly.
Nio is already doing this at scale.
Battery swap stations can also be installed into your garage.
Ev batteries can be hot swapped like the batteries of a controller.
You would just keep two of them on rotation until one of them died from usage.
One problem.may be tht it looks like a floor jack and the tool that quickly unfastens the battery packs could turn this into the catalytic converter theft ring of the future.
Look up a car company called Nio
I don't like the fact that they could put older batteries in my car
Beta or VHS?
To be honest, this looks dated to what nio us is doing.
This sounds like a solution for EV rental car fleets
It does work, Chinese car brands have been doing it successfully for years
So they have to build 20% more batteries, and we are battery constrained. And making the car structure heavier, less efficient. Good luck.
Cool but not elegant. The manufacturers need to get on board with the hot-swap paradigm.
What happened to wireless charging your vehicle ????
meh. outside towing heavy loads, a 150kW charger is plenty enough and the cars that really benefit from them can already reliably get from one charger to the other. so really, their tech is already aimed at a far more niche market. there is also a mistrust of costumers who don't want the most valuable part of their car replaced with a subpar part and the fact that it takes extra space and creates extra weight which could simply be used for more range.
No
So many questions..How long does a swap take? How much does it cost per swap? How much does the retrofit cost? Do you own the last 'swapped battery' if you choose to stop using the service?
They could have a whole other part of the market if they can figure out how to change these on the roads. Instead then towing the car because of no juice one of these would just swap out a battery pack and get you going to the nearest charging station.
… no mention of the speed with which this can be accomplished? Come on Cooley, you're a better journalist than this
This will never work. Fire happens and customer will sue Ample. What about thief customer replacing good component with a bad one and swap the bad component battery for a new one and do it all over again. Anything goes wrong and Ample will get sue left and right even though it may not be their fault.
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The reporting on this was really lacking. Many questions remain unanswered. Crucial ones too. You can see them all in these comments.
I’m sorry to tell You this: THIS WILL NEVER WORK !! 🤦🏻♂️ Because there’s too many car companies and systems to have them all to ADAPT to your system !! Also, I have a brand new car and then you will put an used 🔋 with probably 80% life. 🤔 Bad idea !!
800volt systems in cars will challenge this solution as they can go from 10 to 90% charge in 15 min. I imagine not much different from this solution.
I don't see how they have improved on anything proposed in the past, and still have significant questions to answer. What is the cost of converting to their system? It will definitely take significant modification, beyond the structural framework. There is cooling, battery management, charging hardware… all of which is currently proprietary to each EV manufacturer. They say they don't need rapid charging, but this will change if they ever catch on (which I don't think they will). If a lot of people pay the huge cost to convert their cars, they will expect charged packs ready to go at all times. This will require rapid charging and/or a large stockpile of charged batteries at every swapping station.
I think they should have simply concentrated on things like making custom batteries for old EVs to upgrade them, a BMW i3 for example
This is going to go bankrupt the second battery charging gets faster and range gets longer, Which is happening exponentially more every day. This company also would need to have swap centers everywhere across the country, just as many as Tesla charging stations which has cost billions to create
possible problem with tampering…
When it comes to electric vehicles, bigger batteries and faster charge times is the key.
What the industry needs is the government needs to standardized the the charging cables and maybe the batteries.
Kind of like EU did by forcing all of the tablet and phone manufacturers to use USB Type C.