Can EV battery swap stations really go mainstream?

Let’s face it: wrapping your head around EV charging infrastructure can be confusing. And actually waiting while your car gets filled with juice? No thanks. But what if you didn’t have to charge your vehicle at all? What if there was another way? And what if that way was battery swap stations? Way back in 2013, Tesla proposed the idea of a 90-second battery swap shop. Two years later, Tesla quit the effort. It switched its strategy, focused on the Supercharger network, and declared that battery swapping was a dead-end. But is it really? Let’s dig in. How do battery swap stations work?…

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