Wired has an article about Better Place: Better Place Unveils an Electric Car Battery Swap Station. I had first read about this in the New Yorker (though that article doesn't appear to be online). It seems like this is a step in the right direction. Instead of having to charge your car all the time, you can pull into a station and have the battery swapped in the time it would take to pump your gas.
The Wired article points out that there'd have to be a standard that everyone would agree upon, which I'm sure would create the usual battles between competing formats (hello, VHS vs. Beta, HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, etc.) but the idea seems obvious and brilliant at the same time. You can read more about Better Place at their own website.
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