How does the business half of battery swapping work? Obviously you’d pay for charging the battery but who actually owns the battery? Who is responsible for the battery degradation?
I don’t really get this. Swap and go gas cylinders have existed for ages. You buy the bottle initially, and then it costs x amount to swap for a full one. And when it reaches its expiry its replaced by the company doing the swapping
Battery degradation just needs to be factored in to the cost of the swap
Has to be a subscription or a per-swap fee. Probably subscription to account for the degradation point.
But, you essentially have a subscription for car energy now, you probably pay weekly for gasoline. If they can make it competitive to that I think they have a shot. Say $50/week in gas, means $200/month…seems like that could be profitable. And at least some of the money goes all to the car company, not a million different GA stations, which is a good incentive for them to try to make it work.
$200/month to drive an EV is really expensive though. I drive 30.000km/year and pay around $70/month in electricity for the car. The average driver in my country drives something like 12.000km/year, so that’s closer to $30/month in electricity. That makes $200 seem insane.
How does the business half of battery swapping work? Obviously you’d pay for charging the battery but who actually owns the battery? Who is responsible for the battery degradation?
Subscription’s 🤣😭
I don’t really get this. Swap and go gas cylinders have existed for ages. You buy the bottle initially, and then it costs x amount to swap for a full one. And when it reaches its expiry its replaced by the company doing the swapping
Battery degradation just needs to be factored in to the cost of the swap
Gas cylinders do not cost ten grand though…
Has to be a subscription or a per-swap fee. Probably subscription to account for the degradation point.
But, you essentially have a subscription for car energy now, you probably pay weekly for gasoline. If they can make it competitive to that I think they have a shot. Say $50/week in gas, means $200/month…seems like that could be profitable. And at least some of the money goes all to the car company, not a million different GA stations, which is a good incentive for them to try to make it work.
$200/month to drive an EV is really expensive though. I drive 30.000km/year and pay around $70/month in electricity for the car. The average driver in my country drives something like 12.000km/year, so that’s closer to $30/month in electricity. That makes $200 seem insane.
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