Why can’t we keep battery stock at charging stations and replace the batteries in the car instead of waiting for the battery to charge? It would be much faster and many electric bikes and skateboards have this opportunity. I can understand that the current structure of the car might not allow but why is it not possible or if it is possible what is the issue being faced?
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This was actually one of the design features of the Tesla cars. There was even a press conferance where this exact feature was being demonstrated hosted by Elon Musk. We do not know exactly why this have not been deployed. It does require a lot more infrastructure to be installed then just the chargers. This is also a lot of mechanical parts which may require more maintainence, especially when deployed outside in various weather. It would also require a completely different ownership model as car owners would be swapping out batteries all the time. There is also a question of how to handle damaged batteries in such a system. There is apparantly some reason why Tesla could not make this happen, they might not have been able to solve all the techincaly issues and even though it worked good enough for a demonstration it might not have been reliable in the real world with lots of dirt in various weather conditions and with worn parts.
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