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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wilberforce15" data-source="post: 5381128" data-attributes="member: 5053">That will never be possible here, because the distances are too great. The economics from the manufacturerer's standpoint only work with high volume, regular swaps from customers. That battery swapping station has to keep an absurd number of batteries on hand. It's a total waste when production is battery-constrained (meaning the number of EV's produced is limited by the number of batteries we can produce). On a cross-country trip, that's the only time it could ever make sense for me, and it would save an insignificant amount of time. Meanwhile, nobody is going to build that infrastructure here because it doesn't stand a chance of making money. It isn't going to exist. And I've done long trips in EV's (500-1000 mi/day as a solo driver), and the time refueling is just not a big issue.</blockquote>