Another company that made big claims about its ability to scale and deploy EV battery swapping stations has just gone bankrupt – and, frankly, it’s not too surprising that it has.
Ample is a company that made big claims about its EV battery swapping technology. It claimed to have designed autonomous battery swapping stations that would be rapidly deployable, cheap to build, and could adapt to any EV design with a modular battery which would be easy for manufacturers to use.
An Ample battery swap would take around 5 minutes and cost as little as $13, the company said.
The plan was to use this technology to scale up EV charging much faster than traditional charging stations, with…