This is such a great idea. Standard batterys and you wouldn't have to own them or keep them up. The 'gas' station owns them and the disposal and obsolescence is their problem. They make reasonable money to trade them.

I think hybrid cars being sold today with a 70HP gas engine and a 44hp electric will need new batteries every five years. The second time this is necessary, the owners will just opt to drive-around on 70HP and not replace them because they'll cost more than the ten-year-old car is worth.

Don't believe me? how many older air-suspension Lincolns drive around on the overloads because the complicated compressors and sensors stopped working when the car was over ten years old.

This is the way forklifts at warehouses operate and it works very well. If you don't actually own the batterys, then it solves lots of problems.

BATTERY MAINTENANCE IS NOT THE CAR OWNER'S HEADACHE. BATTERIES AREVERY EXPENSIVE. THE GAS-STATIONS(the battery bays) IN THIS CASEWILL MAINTAIN THESE BATTERIES WITH THEIR EXPERTISE MORE EFFICIENTLY.YOU ALSO HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF A LONG HAUL IN A BATTERY CAR.

THIS CONCEPT CAN ALSO BE ADOPTED FOR THE HYBRID CARS

Hmmm... How about this instead...

You change out your batteries along the way at stores or gas stations. You give them your spent battery and they give you a charged battery. Of course they have the expense of charging the spent battery so they charge you for the battery charge. This way you don't wait for a charge; you just exchange batteries.

Shai Agassi is planning such an arrangement in Israel. There was a recent story about it in the magazine Fast Company. Here's a link to a story on it: