09-11-2011, 06:08 PM
freeradical wrote:
If batteries were being swapped out at swap stations, there would have to be room on site for both fresh and discharged batteries, and it would take a lot of work to get old batteries sent to some location to get recharged, and to receive fresh batteries. The trucks that did this distribution would of course br diesel powered.
Another option would be to recharge the batteries at the swap stations, but that again would take enormous amounts of space, and be hugely labor intensive.
And we'd have piles of spent batteries dumped everywhere in addition to the piles of tires and such we already have. This is a solution for a more environmentally responsible populous.