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Originally Posted by Taf
I think all this "charging at home or in car parks" system is looking the wrong way.
Why not CHANGE your flat battery for a charged one at some local location?
I'm sure it could be done. In-and-out in minutes instead of hours. No need to have charging leads all over the place. No need to upgrade all the local power lines.
The South Korean government is changing all telephone booths into battery-exchange units for their growing number of electric bikes.
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Chinese electric car company Nio are working on just this kind of thing with Nio Power Swap -
https://www.nio.com/nio-power
Clever stuff but would need standardisation or there would need to be a lot of battery stations for all the different manufacturers.