[stetrain]

You add more weight by making the pack easily removable, and you need battery standardization.

If every brand or every model has a different pack size, then swap stations aren’t very scalable.

If you standardize pack sizes, then some cars will have less range than they could, given that they could fit a larger pack.

It makes a lot of sense for the relatively small, light, and inexpensive scooters. The packs can be hand carried, and different vehicles can just have slots one, two, or three packs as needed.

You aren’t trying to squeeze 300-400 miles out of a scooter by packing every inch of the frame with batteries. “Good enough” is perfectly fine for urban scooters.

And I think the reality is that it just won’t be economically viable for large cars. We are quickly reaching the point where the battery packs will last the lifetime of the car, and roadtrip charging stops are falling under 20 minutes.

[pessimizer]

> We are quickly reaching the point where the battery packs will last the lifetime of the car,

Are we helping that along by lowering the lifespan of cars?