You just stop at any station, insert your depleted batteries, click a button on the app and they give you freshly charged batteries to put back in and go.
gogoro youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ddtHj_N2E
asianometry video:
The problem is charging. Charging up 4 containers worth of batteries takes a wild amount of power, we’re talking multiple orders of magnitude more than refrigerated units. By my calculations you needed about 100 days of charging on a single reefer plug. Ofcourse you can speed that up with custom charging infra, but still, the amount of total energy needed is mindbogglingly large and won’t scale easily to ships of 20 000 TEU, or even just constant visits of these 700TEU feeder ships.
https://www.scmp.com/video/scmp-originals/3168635/chinese-sm...
I suspect these ships stop fairly frequently, maybe once every few hours or once a day? I read once that containers can be loaded/unloaded at a rate of about one per minute, so “refueling”, so to speak, becomes a 5 minute to one hour job, depending how much energy is needed. I wonder how competitive that is with current ships of similar size.
The economics become better as energy density of the containers improves, for sure, though.
