Awesome Tips Robotic Drive-Thru Swaps EV Batteries in 5 Minutes
Startup Ample introduces its new robotic swapping station that can change an electric vehicle’s battery in five minutes.
Startup Ample introduces its new robotic swapping station that can change an electric vehicle’s battery in five minutes.
Read the CNET Article for more information:
EV Battery Swaps: Now as Fast as Filling Your Tank
0:00 Intro
0:50 Swapping Station Drive through
1:58 How Ample swaps an EV battery in 5 minutes
2:30 How Ample will deploy battery swapping stations
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Good idea for fleets but not retail consumers. I would worry that my brand new OEM battery pack was being swapped out for a much older Ample pack with reduced range, albeit fully charged.
So you bring in your 2012 Nissan leaf with a 50% degraded battery, and get a new battery? NICE!
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❤ it's a about Time it Happens
I'm pretty sure this is going to fail in the future. Due to costs of the battery, but also the very high possibility of manufacturers making it difficult to replace batteries (different battery designs/shapes, different locations and so on). Requiring the driver to go to their local dealership to replace.
This is a joke, CNET is full of 🐂💩
Only good for fleets will to invest in this startup’s batteries.
It will comes down to the prices if it cost more than fill up your gas tank! Then, forget it!
So.. how does the battery temperature control work with this? Any battery thats not kept at the optimal temperature degrades.
Just wait till you drive up, and there is no batteries
Boom
How much does a swap cost? Tesla tried to do this early on, but the cost was very high.
Sorry but we have this system up and running in Germany. The company is called NIO.
Does this work on Teslas? If so, love to this in Australian cities and regional areas especially SouthEast Queensland where more and more EVs are on the roads these days.
This is the place will put anyone to a horrible place of emergency of fire on cars
Here's the major issue that the car manufacturer has to get around. Initial price of the battery to the consumer. As a consumer, I would be paying for a brand new battery, but upon the first battery swap, I could be getting a battery that is years old or may already be developing a defect. And if the battery is defective, does that effect the warranty of the car? If car manufacturers plan on this type of battery swapping tech, then there is no way they could incorporate the price of the batteries into the overall cost of the car, but somehow I think they would try. If you think the fine print of a car agreement is long now, just wait until this tech is included in that agreement.
Great concept but…. What if someone has a battery with 10% or mor degradation, do they then get a new battery ? The idea is sound but the details are important
Unfortunately there won't be a "standard " battery because as with everything it'll be a money making venture these ev's are no greener than ice when factoring in build mining etc. It's the equivalent of a 4 wheel mobile phone all hype to make money.
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Too many points of failure, wearing out the battery connectors
the fact that swapping batteries for used ones will always raise concerns, let alone the cost
This would make sense as an add-on to an existing car's primary battery unit, like in the trunk. I just don't see how every EV maker will want to give away their power, no pun intended.
If you don’t have time to wait 30min, you must be insanely rich to the point that you are losing thousands every time you take dump.
This is great! But I don't think that people will replace their car battery with this one
Three day set up time is shocking. How much resources & manpower are saved over building a gas station? Cheers
Once solar cars come this will be outdated
only regulation with standardized batteries in all company cars can be done
I do not think the "last min delivery start up, Sally" is what is shown…which is sally beauty…..a public beauty supply store.
Seems kinda pointless since we are now getting EVs that can charge to 80% in 15 minutes. It might be worth it for fleet cars like autonomous taxis.
Good idea, BUT the car has to be built with that feature in the first place. Tesla is definitely out because their batteries are a part of the chassis structure, and you only mentioned ONE car maker who may or may not re-engineer their cars to gave that feature.
While Nio has already built 1500 swapping stations worldwide..
Nio has already done this at scale.
Is it safe? I want to see more and how exactly it is happening?
So getting out of the Tesla like world and getting to actual reality 1. I guess everyone is assuming that in no way ever a driver will damage a battery driving around? 2. Doesn't creating all those batteries kind negate being "green"? 3. We have the raw materials to do something in mass quantities like this? 4. I'm assuming they're cheap if you're planning to have them transferred out so often?
What Linus does here?
What people really don't appreciate about this technology is that the utilities can create incentives to charge these batteries when renewable energy production exceeds the demand from the grid. This will make it easier for utilities to invest in renewables and maintain grid stability.
NIO did it first.
Better to invent a battery that lasts longer