Comment on Stellantis makes a big bet on EV battery swapping in new deal with Ample
dalingrin@lemm.ee 11 months agoI see comments like this about EVs all the time but it just isn’t my experience at all. I’ve never in my life charged for an hour at a DC fast charger. On most EVs, you’ll see a 15-30 minutes for 0-80% charge but you don’t have to charge above 60% where the charge rate usually slows significantly. For instance, a 10-60% charge on my car takes about 10 minutes and that gets me close to 150 miles of range. All of this assumes you don’t have access to level 2 or even level 1 charging. If you do, then you’d never need to go out of your way to charge.
misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
For most of the current owners it’s not a problem, EVs are expensive so they likely own houses and are fairly wealthy. Battery swapping means cheap now and hassle free for the rest of us.