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Sure, and you might be trading your brand new battery pack for one that's on it last charge. SInce you were using it when it died, its up to you to buy another new battery pack.

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:1186039502.166985.261240 @g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Probably needs a skilled technician. And the infrastuctore to store and move the batteries about, and track their wherabouts.

If you're going the battery-swapping route, the batteries would be leased rather than owned.

THINK is planning to lease the battery to keep costs down (the battery is around half the cost of the vehicle):

Although the article doesn't say so, allaying concerns about replacement costs may also be a factor.

it'd probably be some sort of rental scheme

Scheme implies fraud. Also, if its so easy to remove and replace, what is to stop thieves from stealing the battery pack?

Jasen Betts wrote in news:f93mll$1h3$ snipped-for-privacy@jasen.is-a- geek.org:

Something like welding gas bottles I presume.

With those, one puts an initial deposit on the first bottle and fill, and then exchanges the empty bottle for a full one, for the cost of the gas (processing and purifying it, and bottling and trasnportation of it and empty bottle back.)

You have to go back to the same vendor though, to get a full one.

Only in AmE.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Probably the same thing that keeps them from picking up cars with a forklift and putting them on a flatbed today. ;-)

Cheers! Rich