Sitting in the back seat of a Better Place Taxi in Tokyo when it does a battery switch:
The car drives inside the switch station and gets cleaned underneath with air when it drives in. then it stops and after waiting a while the depleted battery is taken out underneath and then the fully charged battery lifted up. It is soon fitted into the car.
The whole battery switch is taking around two minutes and then we have a car that can run 100 km in the city of Tokyo.
This video is doing a bit of summary over my visit. The video is done at the airport and starts with a plane taking off:
It was a very convincing experience.
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