Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/11/25 4:08 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2025-01-10, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

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Apparently, Israel has made the process of charging an electric vehicle
less annoying by making drivers whose cars are depleted drive to a
service station where their battery is replaced within a few minutes. I
have yet to see that here.

There's been a company doing that in China (IIRC, running a taxi car service) for the past few years...
<https://www.scmp.com/video/scmp-originals/3168635/chinese-smart-battery-swap-stations-can-change-ev-batteries>
I also recently read a business article that a corporation may be now partnering with a company in Germany to duplicate it there.
Nope, that's not the one ... that one's expanding to 1000 stations:
<https://www.ttnews.com/articles/catl-china-battery-swapping>
Ah, this is probably the one...they're already at 50 stations:
<https://cnevpost.com/2024/07/16/nio-50-swap-stations-europe/>

I'm a little bit confused about how they would be able to replace EV
batteries in a few minutes...

Ever own a flashlight with replaceable batteries? Did it take hours? <g>
Its just a design question.  I worked on a ~80kWHr Li battery module design many oons ago; it was a ~300lb module, kind of the cube of a row of Xerox photocopier paper boxes.  Swapping out took some time (~1 hr), but that was fine because it was prototyping work and th design goal was that it could be swapped, not that it had to be done in <10 minutes.

Okay, I found some information about it... but, apparently, the Israeli
outfit that was doing it when belly-up in 2013, and Tessla's attempt at this
service ten years ago was unsuccessful. But maybe that's changing. No one is
mentioning how expensive it is to lease these batteries or use this service.
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/lbsbusinessstrategyreview/2024/04/15/the-rebirth-of-ev-battery-swapping-services-and-why-their-time-is-now/
 

Seems that its becoming popular (70% of Nio buyers are renting):
<https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/30/70-of-nio-buyers-renting-the-battery/>
And some customers think that its a decent price (~$100/mo):
<https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1bfako3/pretty_happy_nio_just_reduced_monthly_price_of_my/>
-hh