What fake video?
Where's the god damn video?
True that, which is probably why EV isn't 'taking off' as expected.
The range issue is really limited to commuter cars only.
Not many people can afford to have a dedicated commuter car, so they have their primary as a commuter car.
Only those where 2 people need to commute, the commuter car needs to be dirt cheap (which EV's currently are not)
These days, how many households have 2 commuters anyway with all the work-from-home being more common place.
EV's won't take off unless
1 - The range issue is solved, either through longer ranges, or faster charging at more available locations leading to people replacing their primary vehicle
2 - EV's become cheap enough that it's a no-brainer to use those as the secondary commuter vehicles.
government regulation to force companies to begin using a modular system
Yeah, that's fair. But the issue is also similar to cell phones.
Each battery is unique because it needs to fit the unique layout of the vehicle. Not to mention the battery tech is moving so fast, that the chemistry of the battery itself is changing every few years.
I suspect China's approach to a vehicle where you hot-swap the batteries instead of charging will be the way it goes. Someone will do it, it will be most $$$ efficient and therefore profitable, and then it will force them all to adopt the same approach.
The replacing the battery is simply a supply issue.
There is such a demand and so little supply, that if you want to buy just a battery (and not the entire car) you are out of luck. They'll put that battery in a new car and sell it before selling it to you as a replacement.
But that's short term. There are a huge number of battery plants already breaking ground and coming online.
In 2 years or so, the price to replace the battery will be a HELL of a lot lower, and the issue you linked above will be long gone.
Idiot does idiot things.
The world ignores him.