The main objective of this task is to investigate the influences of battery swapping employment on battery chemistry, grid infrastructure, environment, and business model, strengthen the global information exchange on battery swapping technology, help the formation of battery swapping ecosystem and traceability mechanism, and offer suggestions for policy makers and stakeholders.
There have been massive arguments on battery swapping, some typical examples are:
- Non-uniformity and poor reliability of battery swapping interface
- Difficulty in unifying battery design, structure to achieve common use for different models
- Immaturity and high cost of battery swapping station construction
- Inefficient resource utilization due to lack of method to decide station location/number of batteries equipped and charging time
- Responsibility partition in case of safety problems
