Electric Taxis With Switchable Batteries Debut in Japan

yeah nissan

This sounds like a great system, as long as they standardize the batteries. As long as all the cars are Nissans there will be no problem, but if other car companies get into the EV taxi market they will have to agree on a common battery type. On the whole this is a very clever solution.

Does anyone fact check this stuff?

"60,000 taxis cruising around Japan, a number that accounts for 20 percent of the country's CO2 emissions"

Impossible. Maybe 20% of vehicle generated CO2 emissions.

Imagine the improvements in this technology in the next 10 years and then making it mandatory that say, all yellow cabs in New York City be electric or zero emissions. There are approximately 12,000 yellow cabs in New York City alone.

Now add to that about 6000 buses in NYC that must be electric or zero emissions.

Can you imagine the cost savings and environmental impact?

I know. It just makes too much sense.

Very few good ideas are still good ideas after someone makes them mandatory. This is a good idea. Making it mandatory is a very bad idea.

Nissan is pushing hard into the future while some other automakers are burning the midnight oil to find ever diminishing ways of tuning the ICE. More power to Nissan.

assuming that all evs have the same battery type, we can just swap out a battery, charge the old one, and when someone else needs a battery swap, they get a newly charged one while thier old on is being charged for the next customer.

i hope that electric cars start to look a bit nicer. i really liked the denki cube concept it's too bad nissan didint make it

Is this a prototype of the nissan leaf?

@surge64

the nissan leaf is a much smaller car.

i think it would be cool if they refreshed the datsun 510 and made it electric

Battery switch outs are a good idea (unless EESTOR finally comes true) .... but getting manufacturers to agree on a standard will be a nightmare (witness the plumbing industry, or ink jet cartridges) Profit and greed always win out over common sense. What could be a reality for EVs is this; as we rebuild our interstates, ad an EV lane, which would have an induction strip imbedded.... cars would pay a toll (profit) and then pick up the juice similar to a slot car. When you exit,go back to battery power.....
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