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How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work (hbr.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you notice the charts showing Wh/kg? Since 1991, the charge a battery can hold per weight has gone up 500%, even while prices have dropped a similar percentage. That’s huge, and that’s what makes EVs (and even smartphones) so practical now, but not back then. We have made that jump

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes it's still not enough, that's been my whole point, all we've done is like if SSDs were never invented. Like we're still stuck on spinning disk tech. We're still lacking the charge speed and the range. Yes batteries are better than 1970s when the current design was created, but we haven't made that jump from HDD to SSD.