just replace the battery once you stop at the charging station with a fully charged one. you know, hydraulics, robots and stuff.
but give the customer enough time to go to the toilet room. we don't want the customer to be in a hurry and having a bad feeling because her car is just there in the way doing nothing.
heck, you can even populate your station's roof with cheap mirrors that reflect light all at the same point, make energy and call it an art project. don't screw this up. who knows when will EVs see the street if this project dies because of bad user experience.
just replace the damn thing in 5 min and let the machinery do some futuristic sounds so that ppl feel important/ a part of "i'm so cool club". you could check how's the car's computer doing while you're at it...
if nothing else works, edward bernays is your man.
> just replace the battery once you stop at the charging station with a fully charged one.
The Tesla battery weighs 990 pounds and is built into the car. There are proposals like yours for other electric cars, cars that may be designed to simplify battery removal, but in the long term, I think improvements in battery technology will eventually make them more reliable and longer-lasting.
Your battery is for some reason low on energy. You must charge it or call a tow truck. There's no tech that will charge your battery faster than replacing it.
The fact that something monolithic, at the bottom of the car, which causes bad experience thingy isn't easily removed is the designer engineer's problem. It also shows that nobody really thought about the whole everyday experience of this kind of a vehicle.
The problem is not its size but the lack of easily replacing it at the charging station with a fully charged one. Also you could make it modular and increase its size. Maybe that kind of design would help replacing it faster.
You could not do that without also raising the center of gravity of the car. That thing is massively heavy, putting it under the car is the only place that makes sense for it.
There's also the issue that the battery is fairly valuable and can be damaged/depleted. If I normally charge at home, take care of my car, and have a good condition battery, how happy am I going to be if I take my car on vacation, do a battery swap at some station far from home, and only when I return do I realize that the new battery has been heavily used, and only has 80% of the capacity of the one I swapped out?
