Why are people buying electric cars?

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Octopus announced yesterday a partnership with CATL to run a battery swap business for Trucks in the UK, along with new home batteries.

Trucks From 3:40
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuwknNKpe0U

I remember talking about and advocating battery swapping on here about a year ago, I think Toni has as well if memory serves. Essentially promoting the same things as in this video. Quite a few people on here were very critical of it, but I still believe it to be viable.
 
I remember talking about and advocating battery swapping on here about a year ago, I think Toni has as well if memory serves. Essentially promoting the same things as in this video. Quite a few people on here were very critical of it, but I still believe it to be viable.

People struggled to get past the idea of owning the battery, plus it requires infrastructure and planning on a national scale. I could see battery swap stations operating as franchises, with work and QC testing of batteries to a recognised standard. Lots of opportunity for dodgy dealings, but OTOH no worse than petrol stations.
 
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