Consider the following statements:1. Battery swapping of EVs means mec...
Minister for Transport and Tribal Welfare, Karnataka inaugurated Piaggio Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. Karnataka’s second EV experience centre at Bengaluru.
Karnataka were the first State to introduce an electric vehicle policy and more recently Karnataka became the first State to set up a new battery-swapping network in its capital to help clean and reliable last-mile connectivity in the region.
Battery swapping stations
Instead of charging the batteries immediately, there is another way to refuel the energy source of EVs: mechanically swapping the discharged batteries with fully charged batteries.
All these batteries should be owned by the service station or battery company while the EV driver is only a battery borrower.
The discharged batteries will either be charged at the service station or centrally collected and charged.
Since the battery swapping process involves mechanical replacement and battery recharging, it is also named as mechanical refuelling or mechanical recharging.
There are many obstacles to practically implementing battery swapping. Firstly, the initial cost to set up this battery swapping system is very high. Secondly, space to build a battery swapping station is much larger than that for a charging station. Thirdly, the EV batteries need to be standardized in physical dimensions and electrical parameters before the possible implementation of automatic battery swapping.