Electric trucks? Battery swapping? Never gonna work? 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 WELCOME TO CHINA ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging AukeHoekstra

Electrifying Big Rigs? EVEN AMERICA DOES IT (@amazon that is)

@AukeHoekstra Others may look at that and say see, battery swapping works! I look at it and say see, battery swapping is a terrible idea! That thing is a safety *nightmare* - no insurer in their right mind would touch it.

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@AukeHoekstra This makes a lot of sense for trucks, because they gain flexibility to charge batteries during solar production, low spot tariffs, all while lowering peak grid usage frees. Otherwise unused solar must either be sold to the grid or stored in expensive stationary batteries

@AukeHoekstra Battery swap for trucks makes sense. Fixed routes often. Interesting conceot

@AukeHoekstra We are going with battery swapping on the new ships being built for us right now 🔋⛴️

@AukeHoekstra Yes they love battery swap trucks:

@AukeHoekstra vertical batteries are a horrible idea and a safety hazard especially in a Semi truck!!

@AukeHoekstra I am still a big fan of the technology. It’s a brilliant business model. Locks in annuity streams for life with a battery-as-a-service model. And I don’t think the infrastructure needed is any worse than a supercharger station ?

@AukeHoekstra Good point