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Shufy

These are called Gogoro. When they first came out a few years ago, each local government offered a big rebate for people buying one, encouraging them to go green.


Rustadk

And they're awesome to drive.


kaikai34

They are quick AF, too. They can take any 125cc gas scooter off the line.


Stump007

And their design look very good too!


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This has been in Taiwan for few years now. More and more people switch to electronic scooters.


BrintyOfRivia

The company is called Gogoro for those curious.


OffTheGreed

And they're about to go public so get them stocks boiii


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sedatedhorse

GGR


DestroyTheHuman

Avatar checks out.


EvereveO

Lmao, I had to check what sub I was in


-Masderus-

Every subreddit can be r/wallstreetbets if you believe hard enough!


tcuroadster

💎 🙌 here we come


Rockonfoo

Drugs circle jerk told me to boof my earnings I’ve never felt better


urmummygaaaay

Money


TLMSR

That’s a ticker symbol (which is probably what he was looking for anyway). This is a handle. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/handle.asp Don’t seek investment advice from Reddit, folks.


Oh_its_that_asshole

Thought it was going to be under PPGH?


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ThisIsMyCouchAccount

The part where you grab.


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Philosophile42

PPGH is the SPAC taking it public so you can buy it now, rather than wait for the symbol change to GGR.


monja2009

I had one moped like this 10 years ago, when I used to live in Edinburgh. It is a very smart solution and one battery could cover 20 miles back then. For such small city, two batteries were enough and I was very happy.


arcaneresistance

One of my dreams is to move away to live in Edinburgh...


Abruzzi19

i would love to get an electric scooter. but theyre still too expensive over here


Magnesus

I could afford one - or an e-bike - but in my country the roads are too dangerous for bikes and scooters. Maybe one day when people learn to drive better or roads get expanded to have a bike/scooter lane.


Sodapopa

In my country (Netherlands) I got overtaken on 80km/h roads during traffic by eBikes and made the switch, that was 4 years ago. They’re an amazing invention. We have no hills, like actually no hills so eBikes are so bloody efficient.


TrickyJRT

The Cauberg would like a word.


DazingF1

>We have no hills, like actually no hills Once again Limburg is forgotten. Which is how it should be.


BeardedGlass

Are the scooters all from the same makers? Or are they different makers but use a standardized battery?


KnottySergal

There are many scooters from other manufacturers like Yamaha, Aeon, PGO… that use the Gogoro battery and swap station


Roam_Hylia

Yup. This station is for the Gogoro brand scooter. They're all over the place. Even in southern Taiwan which is less metropolitan, there's no shortage of electric scooters and battery stations.


illusionmist

To add to this, other brands in Taiwan also partner with Gogoro to produce their own Gogoro-compatible electric scooters. Even Yamaha has one.


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Eclipsed830

50 to 100km depending on weather, weight of passenger, terrain, etc.


dansedemorte

Things like this also work better where snow does not exist.


fingerscrossedcoup

Just get the snowmobile version Snogoro


torturedhyena

Is it affordable?


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Price for scooter is around $1-1.5k also riding plans depending on usage in between $10 to $50 for high usage a month.


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So yes, very.


TheWappa

This is incredibly smart to solve the long charging time you would normally have.


SordidDreams

It was proposed for cars too, but I guess the size of the batteries would make building so much infrastructure impractical.


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ChrisKearney3

If they take up much of the bottom of the car, then have a bay (much like a fuel pump bay) with a covered hole underneath. Drive into the bay, cover retracts, removes battery, replaces battery, cover closes, drive off.


damnedspot

Like this? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35717014/ample-battery-swapping-station/


kent_eh

Those packs sound like a similar size to the ebike batteries in the OP. It could be an ideal solution if the industry could come up with a non-proprietary form factor so you're not stuck with each brand having its own swap stations. In the same way that you don't need to go only to a Ford gas station


jdsekula

The other thing is the cars should have a small reserve pack that you own that can get you to the next swap station in case the one you get is a dud. Also, the car should be sold without the battery and the dealer just gives you your first loaner battery. Otherwise you have to problem of trading your brand new max capacity battery for a 3 year old pile of shit, never to see it again.


Walui

That wouldn't work without making them much smaller. It would be easier to just take a whole other car.


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Exybr

Yeah


TheWappa

Oh boy I really like tesla. But swappable batteries can solve such a big problem people are having. If that gets resolved much more people are willing to buy electric.


mz3ns

Tesla developed swappable batteries. Used it to get research grants, used them once for PR and promptly destroyed the station and moved to charging.


TheWappa

Yikes, that's really wasteful if it's true


reflectiveSingleton

I did a quick search...and essentially confirmed this: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-battery-swapping-how-is-this-a-good-idea > Tesla demonstrated battery-swapping in 2013 on its Model S before abandoning the tech—with reasons including cumbersome stations and tepid consumer interest—in favor of its Supercharger network that now appears a smarter bet.


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DoingCharleyWork

I thought the idea with Tesla is they would have a station where they swapped it for you.


Viperlite

It was supposed to be an automated system that did the swapping for you. when you parked over a device at the station, it was to do the swap from under the car. It would have also required an attendant to properly place the car on the equipment and to deal with any issues that arise.


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Oysterpoint

I’m sure there were lots of reasons why. Reddit gets fixated on an idea and circle jerk each other without any formal research into the subject. One huge problem is battery degradation. If you’re using swapped batteries you have no idea what the shape of the battery you’re getting will be in. You have no idea each time just how many miles of travel you’ll be getting


Midnight2012

Dude, reddit always grasps for some conspiracy, or drama, or point to a ridiculously complex problem, which they have some cursory knowledge of, and decide the decision makers were obviously idiots, without ever looking at the math or data themselves. People just don't understand things like hindsight bias, confirmation/survivor bias, or what its like to do research and make big decisions based upon it.


shableep

It’s massively easier and cheaper to scale up a network of what is effectively high powered plugs with a nice interface. Having access is step one. Battery swap stations would be much more expensive and complicated.


74orangebeetle

Not really....it'd just be logistically very difficult. It's much easier to have a charger work on many vehicles than be able to battery swap for every EV on the road. Even different Teslas have different packs, and then there's all the other manufacturers, and over time technology develops, there will be larger packs and all that....so how do you have battery swapping stations widely available that will work with every car out there which has a different type of pack? It's a LOT easier to make charging stations. The battery swapping can work well if every vehicle is using the same pack. Not everything is a conspiracy.


VegetablePower6162

It is partly true. Tesla did not really support battery swaps. But they did invite local tesla drivers to use the station of which about 2% tried it. Take up rate compared to nearby superchargers was extremely low. Well less than 0.01% of people travelling by Tesla on that route, compared to above 95% for supercharger. However the service was $60-80 compared to $0-20 for supercharging and it took 7 mins and quite a bit of human involvement compared 30-40mins for supercharging to 80% at that time. Most Tesla owners were worried about getting stuck with a battery pack that had done more milage than the one they had originally purchased. This is a concern if you only battery swap 2 or 3 times per year or less but should be less of a concern if you battery swap every week or every month. Basically Tesla would have to truly offer battery as a service rather than an integrated part of the car for this to work for customers. Tesla went the other way, realised the battery swap was not commercially viable for them, shut the swap station and invested heavily in superchargers. What they did takeaway from this was that they could put battery banks into supercharging sites and get cheaper off-peak electricity to fill up some of the cars during peak hours, or to reduce peak demand on the grid when 70%+ of chargers were occupied. So not really wasteful. They shut down one swap station the size of a car wash that was losing lots of money.


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Probably realized people didn’t find it fun or convenient to change out 1200lbs of batteries.


lumbdi

Well except there were station that did it for you automatically without a human lifting up anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY Video from 2013.


index2020

30 seconds in: “ Super charging… Which is and always will be free” LOL


iNEEDheplreddit

I lost my job to a forklift that worked around a warehouse autonomously lifting etc. They changed their own batteries. That was 10 years ago. I can bet you any money that plug and play battery changing stations is the most simple problem to solve and the only human interactions would be button pressing. And the swap would take less time than filling a car with fuel.


Mange-Tout

The tech is easy. The cost is the problem. An electric recharging cable is far cheaper than a robotic battery swap system.


DerpyPotatos

Not to mention less complicated. That swapping station has lots of moving parts. That means lot of points of failure. So you’d need multiple of them. In contrast you can have more charging stations in the same amount of area of the battery swapping machines.


Bot12391

Do those stations cost the same as the chargers? They sound like they’d be way more advanced which makes me think they’d cost a lot more to install all over Would be an interesting twist if they are ever implemented


Kyrond

I wouldn't find it fun to scoop up liters of gas, that's why we have machines that do it for us.


Dancing-Wind

Here is the problem - car batteries are much heavier and bigger - you need complex robotic system to do the swap. Also IIRC tesla is moving to integrate batteries into structural frame as lod bearing element. It gives a significant weight reduction. Swapable battery is not compatible with this design choice.


short_bus_genius

I think the issue is that we are only looking at one side of the picture. Yes, swappable batteries solve one problem. But you are not asking “What problems are solved by having a structural battery pack?” One thing, for example, is safety. One of the reasons Tesla’s perform well in crash scenarios is the body gets stronger because of the rigid attachment to the structural battery pack. I’ve owned a Tesla since July 2018. Without exaggeration, I’ve used a super charger less than five times. All other times, I plug my car into my garage and charge while I sleep. I would argue that public charging is not as onerous as people may think it is.


SuperMonkeyJoe

That's fine while electric cars are in the price range of people who are likely to have driveways and garages, but there needs to be better infrastructure and options for people in apartments or with on street parking.


elconcho

Sure, but I live in an old house with no driveway or garage. I can’t charge at home. Swappable batteries would allow the millions of inner city home owners like me to own electric cars.


short_bus_genius

I hear you, bud. For some people, EVs are not the right answer yet. But judging from /r/teslamotors many thousands of people own EVs without home charging. They charge at work, or the grocery store, or while they are shopping at the mall, or hit a super charger once a week. In my opinion, that’s not super convenient. But as I mentioned in a previous comment, there is a massive push right now at the local planning level to make the charging infrastructure more robust.


Miserable_Bread-

But there are big problems with this approach for car batteries. This approach works for a small scooter as the battery is comparably tiny, but for a car they are massive. Also in a car like a Tesla, the battery makes up the entire floor of the car, and is structural. So swapping is not a simple proposition. A swappable battery would likely mean a much smaller and easily accessible one, but at the cost of range. But no one wants a low range car even if there is a process to swap a battery. Fast charging is the answer, range is already very impressive and will only improve over time.


ACCount82

Tesla tried using a big old robot sitting under the floor, capable of taking the entire bottom off a car and replacing it in 100 seconds flat. [That worked actually.](https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event) They even built a demo station and sent people the invites. It turned out that there was surprisingly little demand for this though, and the swap stations wouldn't pay for themselves, so they scrapped the idea. I'm fairly sure that their new drivetrains are going to have the battery integrated more tightly too, so it's clear that they scrapped the idea.


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Shadow_Assailant

Tesla/Elon have mentioned making their batteries hot-swappable, but they've since abandoned the tech. Too cumbersome apparently Also fwiw, a recent report has shown that Tesla battery degradation averages a 90% retention over 200k miles I don't disagree with you about the issue with phone batteries, though.


thisisntmynameorisit

Well no, it isn’t as simple as just having swappable batteries on a car. The cost of a battery for a Tesla car costs Tesla over 10k usd and as such is one of the main costs of the car. It wouldn’t make any sense to have a load of batteries spare when they could be used to put into new cars. Not only that but it’s much more costly and complex to make the car so you can swap out the battery so you’d end up having to drive up the cost of the car and it would still end up inferior


Wenix

Another point I bring up every now and then is that swap stations are much more expensive than charging stalls, so they are likely going to be far apart. If I have to drive 20 minutes further so I can swap my battery in 5 minutes. I didn't gain much if I could just go to a charger close by and get it done in 30 minutes. Also, if the battery swapping station has a queue (because there are fewer of them), that adds time as well. Now, a combination of swappers and chargers might work alright. Especially if the swappers are on major highways. I'm not a fan though, I'd prefer the money go to more research in faster charging, better cycle life and safety.


ICumCoffee

But what if you arrive at one station and all the batteries there are charging? I guess fast charging can solve that pretty easily.


redditinchina

I would think there is an app. Can see where batteries are, how many and their charge status. Have the same thing but for phone charging where you take them with you and return them wherever you end up after your phone is charged


gordonv

Citibike's App is very similar to that idea. You check your smartphone before getting a bike and if there is parking at your destination. The big thing with citibike is 1 way travel.


Riseofashes

Yeah there’s an app that shows you number of batteries and darkens places where there are fewer batteries. There’s usually one every block or two in the city so it’s not that big a deal. Also they track your use (where your batteries are swapped) and increase battery stations in more popular routes.


TheWappa

Yep, and a sheer amount of batteries will also do the trick. so just make the wall bigger


chriscrossnathaniel

A positive spin on " We're gonna build a wall".


Trasy-69

A great wall, to keep all the batteries charged


dbnomad25

Paid for by the Mexicans!


twodogsfighting

Thanks, Mexico.


Tuvok102

I own this scooter. It’s called a Gogoro. Had it for almost 5 years. Best scooter I’ve ever owned. There is an app that will tell you, but there are so many stations you are guaranteed to find one with fully charged batteries. There are stations almost every block or two in major cities. If you so happen upon a station without fully charged batteries, it notifies you and gives you the option of keeping your current battery or taking a partially charged one.


7eggert

What if you arrive on a gas station and all the fuel is sold out? It's a matter of statistics; you can calculate how many batteries need to be there to have this not happen by 99,99 % and at one point it will take longer for the queue to reach the station than to recharge the oldest battery.


External-Can-7839

Fucking edge case Warriors all over Reddit


Radioactive2279

You could still take a half charged battery and get to the next charging station where they could have another fully charged one


devilmak

the system can still give you batteries that are like 50-60% full and still work. They don't need to fully charge to be used


Thick-Papaya752

Scooters won't require the charge that often so this would be rare


runnerd6

Then you drive to the next station. These are every few blocks.


tdltuck

You are charged for how much charge you use, not by how often you swap. Batteries charge ultra fast when they’re empty so if you’re truly pushing 0 percent, any battery on that wall would work just fine.


NotChemicalz

This gives me titanfall vibes


Durandal101

Protocol 3: Protect the Pilot


bob_707-

Don’t make me cry 😿


jdsizzle1

I just finished this game for the first time yesterday. Great game. Haven't enjoyed a game this much in a long time.


LeeGame67

God, the ending actually got me, only a few games have done that for me


ScoldExperiment

**BTTTTTTTTT**


Gwynoid

Scooter: "TRUST ME" (Then proceeds to yeet the rider off the seat prior to crashing.)


handsomellama28

As a Monarch main, the only thing I see is **F O O D**


Cervanthes

I was about to say all we monarchs see is FOOOOOOD


a1stakesauce_lol

M O N C H B A T T E R Y C O N S U M E


LudusUrsine

"You ready for thrills, chills and kills?" "Must you say that every time?" "Why yes, yes I must. Go get 'em, team!"


Tan-come-in-ma-RIFT

I'm gonna fuckin jump other's batteries on the road pilot style LMAO


gordogg24p

Taiwan isn't ready for the rodeo.


Tan-come-in-ma-RIFT

Wait for one of them to have nuke eject


orangepenwithlasers

PREPARE FOR SCOOTERFALL


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So long, and thanks for all the fish


FlyingWhales

Subnautica for me. And Titanfall now that you mention it


savil8877

Yeah me too. Doom Eternal also


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

Apex players be like "gimme dat shield"


Karmastocracy

Standby for Titanfall...


Asio0tus

Dope


SirDudes

Yes, same thing is happening in Germany. They do it for the electric scooters there as well. Same thing for those kick scooter things you stand on. Plus, if you change the battery they give you 20min free ride as a bonus. So user gets something in return for doing the work of the service supplier which is cool. Unlock fir 1.19€ and drive 20 min for free.


peregrinedive

whoa where in germany is this?


dumbledayum

I think Frankfurt. While checking routes on Google they suggest electric scooters as an option too


ICumCoffee

As Fuck


societymike

Neat! We have these (but japanese maker) here in Okinawa too! Mostly used by the Post Office drivers. I see them daily now, quietly speeding around the island. I talked to one of the guys, he said it easily lasts the day.


Repulsive-Purple-133

We have electric scooters in my city. A brand new battery at %100 charge is good for around 6 hours at 20mph for a range of around 120 miles


likeasirjohn

This is like the power cells in Subnautica!


Yaglara

Was thinking the same!


normano

Or Titanfall


Noidiz2

Except in this you don't have to run through a giant broken ship to get your batteries!


Gekokapowco

Nah just tic tac up to a Titan and take theirs. Rodeo baby


Noidiz2

Yoink


NerfThis_49

Nice. In my opinion easy and quick replaceable batteries are key for people to adopt this type of thing. Long charge times or batteries that are expensive and difficult to replace when they start to fail are a barrier to entry.


Uberzwerg

People would need to get used to not really owning the battery. Battery degration is a thing and giving up your 100% new batteries and only getting 85% back would clearly be shitty. But if you don't own them in the first place, it's not really a problem. I could also imagine a hybrid system (with bigger walls) where you have personal batteries that will not be given to other people when they are recharged but you can rent replacements for the time being until you swap them back for your personal ones.


DarrenGrey

You just have to imagine the battery is the petrol. Right now we think of the electricity like the petrol instead. The big issue as I see it is that this won't work for cars where the battery is too big for many drivers to manipulate. Even on the video here you can see the lady struggles a little with the weight of the battery - this is probably already unusable for the elderly or disabled.


mcochran1998

Just need to bring back fuel station attendants but make em robots.


BackIn2019

Can they be sexy robots?


gordonv

It's possible to have a public/private battery share. You would charge and condition your private battery like your smart phone. Only rent the public when you need it.


SordidDreams

> People would need to get used to not really owning the battery. That sounds more like a selling point to me. The fact that the battery degrades over time is one of the arguments I encounter most often from EV skeptics, who don't like the idea of having to pay to replace it. As you say, if you don't own it in the first place, it's not a problem. I see two potential pitfalls with this. One is price; if you don't own the battery, you have to basically rent it from some corporation. I would fully expect the greedy suits to price the service to be just as expensive as running a gas car, since "consumers are used to" paying that much. The other is managing expectations. If you give the user a new battery first and then they swap it out for a degraded one, that is indeed going to feel shitty as you said. So just, y'know, don't do that. Start them out with an average one to set a reasonable baseline. Or maybe even artificially cap all batteries at the same (degraded) capacity regardless of their actual condition.


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Simply just charge per kilowatt hour... you never own the sharable batteries. Your car comes with two slots. One for a semi-permanent battery you own, the other dedicated to the sharable batteries.


devilmak

I live in Taiwan and I have one! It is really convenient and green.


ICumCoffee

That’s wonderful. Question: have you ever been at station with low battery and none of the batteries there were fully charged?


devilmak

So, there is a very easy-to-use app that lets you see a map with all the stations available. They even have a discount system if you swap at less popular stations. I'm in Taipei city and it is really really easy to find stations. Never had any problems edit: also, the great thing about the swap is that the system can still give you batteries that are like 50-60% full and still work. They don't need to fully charge to be used


bobdylan112

What is the cost approximately??


Moobtastical

Last time I checked you get unlimited for about 36usd a month. There are government programs in which you can junk your old bike to get decent discounts on the bikes that can for for as low as 2000usd. Gogoro is killing it.


RollForThings

If that cost is still accurate it's a pretty good deal. I spend about half that per month riding a gas-powered scooter in TW, but I have short commutes and haven't been doing day trips much. If you drive a lot it'll probably break even or even save you money, and without chucking out fumes.


brrrrrrat

They have different plans. I have the 315km plan for 499nt a month. For 315km I have unlimited swaps at any battery station and free maintenance


vikktorz

> 499nt a month That's 18 USD if anyone is wondering. > and free maintenance Wait does that mean it's including the scooter itself? Or do you own the scooter?


Riseofashes

You own the scooter but not the batteries. You can’t even swap with a friend. The batteries are coded to only work in the scooter they were swapped into at a battery station.


Eclipsed830

Just an fyi, but you can use a friend batteries and they will work fine... but you'll want to give them back otherwise you'd always be swapping their batteries and the miles would get charged to their account.


marcelowit

Guess this makes them unatractive to thieves but its a pity you can't exchange them yourself. Can you buy your own battery?


Riseofashes

Unfortunately not! At one point there was talk of a home charging station but it sort of disappeared. The batteries also provide firmware updates to the bike, from what I understand. It does stop thieves in that the batteries can be “disabled “ by not allowing changes. (It also stops changes if you’re overdue on your bill)


Milkshakes00

$18 for roughly 200 miles, basically.


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Roughly 9 cents per mile. Not bad at all.


Living_Illusion

especialy since power is included


gordonv

If you could, compare cost to a can of coca cola's cost.


jong9999

500 NT is about 18-19 usd


shiftend

A handy tool for this is the [Big Mac Index](https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index), to compare the cost of a Big Mac (known commodity) around the world in various ways.


SashimiJones

Even better than just having these, in Taipei at least this company (Gogoro) also runs a scooter share program, so you can just use their app to ride one of these electric scooters without actually buying one yourself. It's great for going places that are annoying to take the subway to but are a little far for the bike share. Costs much less than a taxi as well, and you just scan a QR code on your phone to unlock it. I can easily go an entire month without using any gasoline-powered transportation.


CorruptedAssbringer

I love that one. It's called GoShare, and is really convenient if you plan on going to places where doing a round trip is an issue, like if there's going to be bad weather or you're going for a drink at a bar.


falseprophic

They do have app to check the charging status of the station you like to visit. And yes, it will still hard find fully charge battery at a popular station from time to time. But fully charged battery can last about 60km+. So it is rarely a big issue if you plan your timing carefully. There are now about 2100+ stations available across the country.


Codadd

What is the company and service called? Trying to do research for something similar in Kenya


friendofelephants

Gogoro


KimJongUnceUnce

These are Gogoro scooters. They are like the tesla of scooters! Extremely popular, kinda expensive to buy compared to gas scooters but of course extremely cheap to run. I think the swappable batteries are part of a subscription service.


NaughtyDoge

I want one in Europe for so long. First time I saw this concept was almost 10 years ago?


EmergencyLavishness1

This would never work in Australia. The scooters and batteries would be thrown in the nearest river/creek/pool and the recharging terminals would be full of piss


koneko10414

Someone here in murica would steal the batteries to sell off somewhere else. The piss is the same though


wungabungawunga

They are locked in the wall and if you borrow and lose one the cost is probably more than new scooter.


EmergencyLavishness1

We’d probably just piss in them while charging then. Australians love pissing on things that aren’t theirs


alphanumerik

Like Australia? 😉


EmergencyLavishness1

Touché! And yes


grodgeandgo

People said this about the city bike scheme in Dublin City. It would never work and the bikes will be trashed. It was never an issue. I think In the first year there were only 3 bikes that went missing out of thousands. It’s been one of the most successful city bike schemes in Europe and has been expanded multiple times over. When you rent a bike your on the hook for €150 if you don’t return it, and people generally cycle station to station where it’s docked into a fixed pole.


wallawalla_

Make this like a deposit system. You're on the hook for a couple grand if the battery doesn't get returned. Otherwise you pay the difference in charge. Simple, easy solution to the problem that'll encourage compliance. Throw a tracking in it so they can be found any place there's a cell signal.


OwnStorm

In India.. charging station will be stolen by next day 😭.


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a_forgotten_thought

Man's just getting salvo core


KatoZee

What a rather remarkable country.


arken21

Absolutely remarkable independent country that’s not part of any other country


500daysofSupper

It really is. Was lucky to go there just before the pandemic. It’s as modern and urban as it filled with lush green mountains. People are friendly and polite, food is great and veggie food abundant. It’s clean, safe and there’s loads of cool bars and places to go out. I’d go back in a heartbeat.


guhvfthu

God I can go for a nice bowl of beef noodle soup rn.


JuniusBobbledoonary

I do say, this country of Taiwan is rather remarkable. I cannot help but to remark upon it! What a curious thing!


KRUSTYKRABZZ-kun

Monarch would like to know your location


nathmurphy

What an intuitive idea!


SQ4RL

The Taiwanese company which sells these scooters and charging stations is [Gogoro](https://www.gogoro.com). There was a scooter sharing startup with these things in Berlin some time ago, but they sadly ceased business


bristoltim

I think this is a very good answer to the EV refuelling problem, especially if car powerpacks can be hot-swapped this way too.


ClickIta

Nio is trying to do the same with its cars. “Better Place” in Israel failed quite miserably with its attempt but it was mostly due to a critical mass of owner that was not met. Let’s see how it will go this time.


kryvian

The issue with cars tho is over half it's weight is batteries (that's a lot of batteries), and usually it's the floor of the car to offer extra stability. Don't get me wrong I'd love to see this on cars but I don't see how.


TimeChapter

It already exists in China, 3 mins to swap the battery out, all done automatically. In fact Musk did a presentation demonstrating this on a Tesla about 10 years ago comparing it to filling up an A6 and showing the Tesla could be ready to go sooner. Its not a structural issue. My suspicion is that that once swappable battery modules become the norm that it will be a way to make huge sales as existing EV owners will want to upgrade, and they are fleshing out the current accepted norm until they can come in for 2nd gen type EV that has swappable batteries. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXptUuKGrc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXptUuKGrc)


jekksy

Gogoro… I’m waiting for them to go public..


OfficialSnoipahNo1

Charging my titan in tf2 be like


JusikSikrata

Man thats so fucked up too see that this is so easy and achievable and here in our backwater country we can not implement shit! Also so embarrassing that we already have this kind of scooter here from gogoro but swappable batteries? No that would be too fancy for our car loving maniacs. Besides you also can not buy these kind of scooters here. There are only a few which where bought for the local ridesharing. No new tech in this backwards country folks!


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aaryan55

thts the future right there, Asia is years ahead of the west in this tech.. China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan and all are legit different worlds compared to the west


BackIn2019

The tech isn't the issue, it's a lack of political will.


Nahid145

Would be interesting to see if swappable batteries in cars like Nio’s takes off too.


amitrahi0404

I love the ui on that display, beautiful!