Comparing a short charge time of like 5 minutes for a gas pump which immediately gives you full mileage with a 20min (in selected locations) partial charge on an already shorter range is imo, disingenuous at best or ignorant at worst.
Battery swapping could be possible if it werent for some tech resilient people that are already conservative on a tech that is barely a few years out in public - "uh but the design does not allow," "this is how it s made" etc.
fact is, it is very much possible as thse people have proven on bikes which of course could have also benefited from the trivial design takes you mentioned, but chose not to and actually select bike designs where battery swap is possible.
lepus_fatalis t1_j1t3q6o wrote
Reply to comment by LittleKittyLove in Battery swapping spurs Kenya's electric motorbike drive by For_All_Humanity
a very privileged point of view imo.
Comparing a short charge time of like 5 minutes for a gas pump which immediately gives you full mileage with a 20min (in selected locations) partial charge on an already shorter range is imo, disingenuous at best or ignorant at worst.
Battery swapping could be possible if it werent for some tech resilient people that are already conservative on a tech that is barely a few years out in public - "uh but the design does not allow," "this is how it s made" etc.
fact is, it is very much possible as thse people have proven on bikes which of course could have also benefited from the trivial design takes you mentioned, but chose not to and actually select bike designs where battery swap is possible.
sheesh