If the battery is not easily swappable, then your green EV is a rolling pile of premature waste by design. Not intended to be drivable for 20 years, living a long life on the used car market (as is common with ICE cars), but instead diverting prematurely to waste in a nicely profitable way.

But you could swap whenever. Bad battery? Swap it.

The real difficulty is making the process work across multiple vehicles, making it safe and making it less of a pain than DC charging.

Imagine a vehicle that’s fully autonomous, always connected to power, and can carry more than 4-6 people at a time.

You could allocate lanes specifically for it, too, so it could go super-fast.

We wouldn’t need nearly as much parking, so you could push things closer together and be able to walk to places, and have parks…

Man, that’d be cool. I bet if it ever becomes possible, America will be the first to do it at scale. It would be such a technological and societal advantage, we’d be dumb to not use it to its fullest potential.

Edit:

If only it existed! We could call it a RAIN, for how it cascades people upon a location like rainfall. Or maybe to clarify that it’s for transportation… a T-RAIN? Man, if only… /s

At first read I thought you meant swap vehicles while traveling. With how auto manufacturers are moving towards subscription-based models, I wouldn't be surprised if something like that becomes an option. $700/month hot-swappable Ford Fiesta EV's. Drive one in, take another out, carry on your route.

Or just turn every road into a railroad and switch out cars for trains.

Choot choot!