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I would be kind of like buying an electric Chevy S-10 with the Ni-Cad battery packs that someone didn't take care of or that had even a single cell go bad, you can't buy the batteries for them any more so you are stuck retrofitting some other batteries in to the vehicle.
Battery swapping is also going to limit vehicle design, does the Smart EV get the same battery pack as a much larger vehicle? if Chevy makes an electric only Volt with it's "T" shaped pack that runs down the center how do they have to redesign the whole vehicle so it's a flat pack that mounts under the floor?
As it is we drive to much and we drive alone more and more and it's only getting worse, we need to get over our selves and the idea that we need to be able to do cross country road trips on a whim in our personal vehicle and instead work on improving our public transit systems and car share programs so when you get to the city you are going to you can check out a personal vehicle if the local mass transit doesn't meet your needs.
It's the idea of working smarter, not harder.
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