EV batteries aren’t cheap commodity items like, say, propane tanks. The batteries are a large portion of the value of the car, and they have a lot of electronic hardware and software embedded. Even if they were standardized, a swap program would be complicated and expensive to run.

The place where the power is, the actual cells are almost all the same. The major problem is that automakers use them as part of the chassis.

You’re still talking about trading in a ~$10k battery pack to get ~$100 in electricity. There would be incentives on all sides to play games related to the condition of the batteries.

I’m just talking about the consumer been able to travel between places without the need to stop every 300 miles to recharge the car and wait 30 or more minutes. Like we do with our fuel cars.

I get that. I just think the cost of the batteries, and the fact that they degrade, makes it unworkable. If you had a new EV with 300-mile range, would you swap the battery, and maybe get one that will last less than 50? I wouldn’t, and that would lead to the battery pool getting worse and worse.