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Could battery swapping be the Betamax of the EV market?

Posted on - 09 Apr 2025

Category - News & Views

Probably we need to explain that title for a large percentage of our readers that didn’t grow up in the Eighties! Oh well… Betamax was a brand of video recorder. Yes, videos. I know, I’m showing my age. But just bear with me. In the eighties the videotape format war was between VHS and Betamax. Betamax originally had the higher quality images, but its competitor VHS had the Gigafactory moment and was commercialised much faster than Betamax. And Betamax fell by the wayside. We can’t help but think that battery swapping could be the Betamax of the EV market. In...

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