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Originally Posted by freebeard
Nobody is holding your feet to the fire.
The swappable battery has established a business model on the low end. Tesla tried and abandoned passenger vehicle battery swapping.
I suspect the opportunity is on the high end, trucking and fleet vehicles.
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The context was passenger vehicles, so that's what my response was in reference to.
I've speculated in other threads before that battery swapping would make sense in certain applications. The most interesting to me is autonomous farm tractors. Once they become automated to the point of not requiring a dedicated operator, they could swap packs as needed to continue working while the spent pack is recharged.
There's an interesting case for it in trucking too.
There's no profitable model for passenger vehicles though. Even an autonomous taxi fleet would probably be better served by simply having more vehicles than having swappable batteries.