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You'd need a service contract with a battery supplier.
No fuel station would risk a competitor driving in with their old batteries and swapping them with good batteries.
So you would likely be locked in with a fuel station brand.
As a consumer, you also risk picking up a dud.
Fuel stations would also need to be considered in insurance claims, as they would own the battery.
It's a great idea, however. I'd rather see more public transport and less cars. But electric cars, easier "refueling" of electric cars, and more solar/wind/hydro/nuclear power is a good hold over
Electric-powered public transport is the best for both worlds. If we can add electric buses to trams and plan the cities accordingly, most people living in them would never need to own a car.
Sounds like a job for a federal program. Certify and inspect all batteries and connect every station to a central server. It would be a massive administrative task, but it would create a lot of commerce, jobs, and taxes from new sales.
We actually have this thing in Australia called swap n go. It's pretty ubiquitous in hardware stores and petrol stations- you bring in an empty lpg gas canister, swap it for a full one.
Granted there's probably a monopoly behind it, but that's not locked to a fuel station
Yeh, that's pretty common. But a gas bottle is a lot cheaper than a battery, and testing a gas bottle is cheaper as well.
Swappable batteries could work, but there is a lot of risk involved
Lotta risk involved in storing gas like that back in the day too. We adapt.