what's up guys how are y'all doing today today i'm gonna be talking about why battery swap is a
terrible idea literally i don't know why people are actually talking about battery swap and why
like other companies are actually doing it it is so stupid i'm going to be providing some pointers
on to why i think it's actually stupid and why it should just not be implemented at all so before
we get started like this video and subscribe if you haven't already and we'll get right into it
so first i want to talk about what is the battery a battery for an electric vehicle
is like the engine for an internal combustion engine vehicle so basically any gas diesel vehicle
out there a battery is like an engine and so basically when you're buying a used car you want
to have a car that has a really good engine and also transmission but mainly really good engine
when you're buying a used electric car you want to make sure that it has a really good battery
by really good means less degradation it can handle more charge cycles without degrading too
much it has good cooling you know all that type of stuff that actually comes into play basically
it should not have that much degradation and it should not degrade as you're using the vehicle
as much like the nissan leaf for example degrades really heavily after like four or five years the
capacity of that vehicle drops to like 80 so you lose 20 of capacity really really quickly
part of that is due to active thermal management and whatnot for the battery itself but nonetheless
you want to make sure that you get a good battery when you're buying a used electric vehicle
so what does that mean when you have an internal combustion engine vehicle you want to make sure
your engine is running at the top up most you know best condition possible so that even if you buy a
brand new vehicle that when you're gonna sell it later on that you don't have problems you don't
have to pay extra upfront costs or anything you want to do your buy yearly oil changes or whatever
you or depending on how much you drive and whatnot and basically you just want to make sure all the
fluids are topped up make sure that the engine is actually running at at its upmost efficiency
giving the best mileage possible because with an ev it's a battery you don't really have anything
like that like fluid checks or anything like that so really it's just there and a lot of
people think that a battery is like a fuel tank but really you have to think of it like an engine
sure it stores energy just like a fuel tank but it resembles an engine more than an actual fuel
tank like a fuel tank you just strap on a car and there you go you can add bigger fuel tanks
smaller fuel tanks add in a trunk maybe in the cabin whatever depending on what your purpose is
whereas the battery is like an engine the entire vehicle is designed around a battery now let me
get into why batty swap is a very bad idea think about it this way you buy a new electric car say
you buy the brand new tesla model 3 right the dual motor tesla model 3 it's what like 50 60 000 you
drive it for a few thousand miles before needing a supercharger because now you're on a road trip
instead of plugging it in and keeping that battery pack you decide to go for the battery
swap station now what do you get your two three thousand mile old battery gets swapped in with
it could be either a brand new battery or it could be a battery that has done over 200 000 miles that
has 10 percent degradation you wouldn't really want that especially for your basically month old
model three you don't want an old battery and it's the same thing with an engine because electric car
batteries are just like an engine in a regular vehicle swapping a battery is like swapping an
engine so you drive up to whatever like fuel station or whatever and you literally take
out the engine and swap it for a new one there is a chance that whatever engine you have you
might get a better one but there is also an even higher chance especially if you bought a brand new
a brand new car that you will get a much older engine say you bought a brand new f-150 so now
after like say a few thousand miles you're like okay let me just try out this engine swap station
so now your brand new two three thousand mile old engine gets taken out of your car
and put in say with a 200 000 mile engine same size same power output and everything but that
engine is much more older has less efficiency and basically it's just terrible you would not
want that for your brand new vehicle it is so stupid i don't know why people are talking
about battery swap as if it's actually a good idea it is not and i'm not even talking about
the actual financials of it where you actually need all those battery packs just in storage
we don't even have enough battery packs to supply our current electric vehicles let alone just sit
there doing nothing so instead of doing that you rather just charge up an electric vehicle and the
biggest actual problem with actually charging up an electric vehicle is like the charge times like
oh my gosh takes an hour or what not well to be honest these days you can get a really good
elect especially the modern electric vehicles you can charge them up really quickly within 20
even like 30 minutes you could pretty much get a full charge or near full charge obviously the last
like 20 takes forever but almost full charge 80 percent charge within 30 minutes most tvs i think
model 3 doesn't in like 20 minutes it takes longer for you to actually go in the convenience store
go to the washroom and maybe grab something to eat then the car takes to charge up that's the level
we've gotten today and that is why it's becoming irrelevant and this is what we have today that's
just a few years of evolution of electric cars batteries thermal management and whatnot right
imagine what will happen in the next few years by 2025 you could charge
up your entire electric car or at least 80 percent of the range and the range would be
500 miles you can get 400 miles of charge within 10 minutes maybe less who knows and then you can
even advance all the way up to 2030 and now you can literally charge up your electric vehicle
in five minutes except you wouldn't actually be driving there would be like electric snake charger
like that it'll plug itself in five minutes later plug itself out the car will drive wherever you
are but that's a completely different story so now let me ask you this most of you probably drive an
ice vehicle or have an ice vehicle tell me this would you trade in your engine for a much more
crappier engine i think almost everyone would say no literally probably everyone but now you ask the
question would you trade your engine for a brand new engine almost everyone would say yes now given
the probability 50 50 chance that you can get a new engine versus an old engine would you take it
and i can bet you all the people that have actually not kept their engine up to
maintenance spec or whatever it is right you know kept the engine running well and added up
most efficiency would probably say yeah i'll take the chances and the people who took care of their
engine are like you know literally car guys or whatever car goes it doesn't really matter but
just people who like taking care of their car do oil changes check their transmission fluid pretty
much everything check their coolant and whatnot right keep their engine at the utmost efficiency
i can bet you almost every one of them would say no so now what you get in the end is basically a
pile of shitty engines engines that have been pretty much destroyed and run down on so when
you do go up to that station you're basically just swapping your shitty engine for another shittier
engine so it doesn't really make sense and now imagine say okay new engine technology whatever
comes out right say something like two years later oh my gosh this engine gets like 50 miles to the
gallon without hybrid system for example just hypothetical situation now first of all you would
have to actually replace all your old engines take them out to replace it with this new engine
and then cars would drive up get the new engine never go to that fueling station again and just
always plug in or you know literally fuel up with their nozzle and whatnot so you will end up
where you begin with a pile of shitty engines again it just does not make financial sense
at all to make pretty much badly swap station and you can tell this neo is kind of struggling with
that they're like they're not profit it's not a profitable thing and i don't even think it can be
a profitable thing just because how humans work in a perfect scenario yes probably but humans we're
far from perfect far from perfect so in the end you'll just be back to square one and you have
a pile of shitty engines and basically that's just waste so overall just keeping an engine in the car
is just a hundred times better than swapping an entire engine and i'm not going to get into the
actual technicalities of how hard it is to swap an engine and all that crap i'm just talking about
think of a battery as an engine that's all i'm trying to say your brand new battery especially if
you got a brand new car and you want to go to this battery swap station you're pretty much likely
going to get a pretty hefty used battery that has a lot of degradation also when this happens
i don't think a lot of people are actually going to take care of the cars as much especially if
they know okay they could just get another crappy batteries like why take care of any car then i'll
just you know take crappy batteries until i get a good one and then not use it again it's
just so stupid humans are just not good at this type of thing now obviously maybe when you have
like entire robo taxis yeah then sure but until then no and that's going to take a very long time
and at that time you actually have to program it so that whichever depending on how much
degradation of battery has basically the same sort of battery goes to similar old vehicle and whatnot
but i think that's uh not as big of an issue because you have no one's no humans at you
driving cars but that's like 20 50 20 60 well into the future right now it's not gonna work
and by then i'm pretty sure charge times are going to be very low and especially will probably have a
very good battery like a breakthrough technology or something by then 100 thank you for watching i
hope you understood it let me know in the comments down below if my explanation or my example using
an engine was actually understandable and if it was actually good feedback is always appreciated
so thank you for watching hope you enjoyed this one and i'll take your leaf peace because
almost no one explains it like an engine but everyone says about it is like an engines
but no one actually explained engine replacement right because they know it's a stupid idea so why
are people saying a battery replacement or swap or whatever it's like it's just stupid anyways