Most of these arguments are based on the PRESENT state of battery technology and don’t take into account future developments.
Aren’t you just making my argument for me? If there are multiple serious battery improvements why would the industry standardize on a swappable battery now?
About 5 years in the future there will be fast chargers every 50 miles on highways plus most out of the way places.* With people usually charging at home or work how will there be enough business to support a capital intensive inventory of batteries at as many locations?
- approximating the 48 states as 3000 x 1200 miles with a grid of 50 x 50 miles it only takes 60x24 (or 1440) locations to have a charger every 50 miles. Tesla by themselves already has almost this many just not distributed that evenly due to where most EVs have been sold so far.
Mike