Battery swap has failed before, but new venture might make it work for fleets like Uber and delivery vans with “battery as a service.” Swap offers solutions for mid-day charging, battery decline, the ...

When I learned that CATL had given up on its Choco-SEBs, it was clear that Ample was all alone in the battery module swapping business. The Chinese giant lost a massive opportunity to set a world ...

We recently took a look at the California-based electric vehicle battery swap startup, Ample. Picking up where Better Place left off, Ample is attempting to remove the cost of buying a battery with ...

Until a few years ago, it was not hard for startups to find strong financial backers. That explains why many entrepreneurs tried their luck in the automotive industry. Rivian and Lucid are the most ...

EV battery swap specialist Ample has announced it is bringing the first-ever modular swap stations to Japan with the help of partner ENEOS. The first Japanese swap stations will be erected in Kyoto ...

Battery swapping has long been one of those holy grail solutions for addressing the problem of range anxiety in electric vehicles. It’s been tried a number of times over the past 15 years and while ...

EV startup Ample today announced the rollout of its new modular battery swapping technology. A fully autonomous station deploys robots to remove and replace modules from an electric vehicle containing ...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ample, a leading provider of battery swapping technology for electric vehicles, today announced a $25 million investment from Mitsubishi Corporation.

Battery swapping has long been a dream solution for the infrastructure problem standing in the way of wide electric vehicle adoption. Tesla famously tried but then abandoned the idea half a decade ago ...

The holy grail of electric cars is a full recharge as fast as a gasoline fill-up. We're still at least a half an hour shy of that, but startup Ample thinks it can close the gap substantially with a ...