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by ZeKK14 3681 days ago
The french car maker Renault tried this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Fluence_Z.E. (<- the point is in the link)

It didn't work.

2 comments

Sounds like it wasn't profitable, at least in 2013: "The company's financial difficulties were caused by the high investment required to develop the charging and swapping infrastructure, about US$850 million in private capital, and a market penetration significantly lower than originally predicted..."