- charging allows for parallel charging while a swap station would allow for 1 vehicle to be swapped, so you could have a line of cars waiting to swap that would take just long or longer than charging
- swap stations need full size battery packs that could otherwise be used to sell another BEV
- battery degradation would upset folks who had a battery with 100% range only to be swapped for a used battery with 80% range
- unless they carry different form factor battery packs, they are limiting their vehicles to same size packs basically forever, so forget about larger packs or smaller packs depending on vehicle size
- charging allows for parallel charging while a swap station would allow for 1 vehicle to be swapped, so you could have a line of cars waiting to swap that would take just long or longer than charging
- swap stations need full size battery packs that could otherwise be used to sell another BEV
- battery degradation would upset folks who had a battery with 100% range only to be swapped for a used battery with 80% range
- unless they carry different form factor battery packs, they are limiting their vehicles to same size packs basically forever, so forget about larger packs or smaller packs depending on vehicle size