One start-up that also planned to offer battery swapping for electric vehicles, Better Place, recently filed for bankruptcy and halted its operations. Chowdhry said that company’s plans were based on the flawed assumption that all the different electric vehicles would use interchangeable batteries.
Actually THIS is the problem with electrics. Until you can pull into a station and get a generic battery swap what’s the point? All these electrics have proprietary battery systems.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone buy an electric for it to be their only car. In fact, I don’t think an electric is for everyone. If it fits in your lifestyle, then go for it. If not, then stick with what works for you.
The issue you touch on with common batteries, is compounded by the infrastructure they’ll need to swap, recharge, then rotate out to be place in another vehicle too.
Imaging how much space it will take to keep those battery packs, exchanged, moved, stored, recharged then cycled back out for the for next vehicle that needs one.