[cschmid]

The Taiwanese scooter company Gogoro recently announced something similar: Their scooters come with swappable batteries that you rent. The swapping station they have throughout the city are basically walls full of batteries. Since the company owns all the batteries, they can then use them to provide power to the grid during peak load.

[trompetenaccoun]

That makes more sense as it can be better planned based on projected demand. They also have more batteries than customers. With individual car owners, they often can't charge when it's convenient for the grid because they drive their car and need it when they need it.

[dokem]

Is the energy in these batteries for scooters or the grid? So you need to store more energy than the scooters need so that energy is not depleted from servicing the grid. Now you have excess batteries in the middle of urban area. Not what you want. The amount of energy needed for some scooters is peanuts when talking about the grid. Not to mention that scooter usage and grid power consumption surge will roughly correlate. Have scooters, sure. Have batteries of some form to handle the grid, sure. There is absolutely no need for this to be combined.

[paraselene_]

They also have solar panels at their batteryswap station when possible.

The problem is battery rentals, I think only NIO right now is operating battery-swapable EVs. It's easy on a scooter, but not so much on cars IMO.