bit of a problem here:
if batteries are kept in rotation until they die… you’ll most likely experience one dying on you. probably multiple times during your life.
the rest holds up just…how would you avoid a battery dying on you, if you’re still using the same system? you’re not getting a new battery every time you swap, you get an old battery that’s been sitting in the station recharging.
it’s gonna die on someone, might as well happen to you…
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There are ways to calculate a batteries remaining life, usually you’d have a chip dedicated to tracking all of that. They can tell you a battery’s history, health, estimated charge capacity etc. So if the station detects a batteries life is low or it’s marked as chaged but it’s charged significantly below it’s initial capacity it can be taken out of rotation and inspected and fixed/disposed of if need be.
Personally I wonder if, once we have interchangeable batteries, if it will be more common to have several smaller, shorter life batteries that add up to a certain range. That way the recharge station only has to change out the batteries with a lower charge, and even if the battery system trips up and you get a borked battery your range would be slightly reduced not completely gone or halved