Could Gogoro's new electric Smartscooter and battery swapping infrastructure revolution... - 0 views
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[pop-up] urbain on 01 Apr 15"Range anxiety is real - most electric vehicles take hours to recharge, and EV stations are few and far between. Companies like Tesla and Better Place (now defunct) have developed battery swapping stations that give electric vehicles a full charge in minutes instead of hours, however the technology is difficult to scale and hasn't reached prime time - yet. The Gogoro Energy Network is envisioned as a dense, connected array of GoStations - ATM-sized battery swap stations that can give EV drivers a full charge in six seconds flat. Using a GoStation is a snap - a driver simply grabs batteries from their vehicle, pops them into a GoStation, and the station ejects a fresh set of batteries. A single GoStation contains six batteries at any given time, and the stations' modular design allows them to be chained together to create bigger battery banks. The GoStations' small size means that they can be quickly and easily deployed to blanket an entire city, and they don't require any special infrastructure to set up - a single 15 amp station runs on about as much energy as big refrigerator. Gogoro is targeting a density of 1.6 stations per square mile, so the average distance between each station would be around .8 miles."