Except you now have to convince people that the most expensive part of the EV is something they are going to let be swapped out for another battery of unknown provenance. If that swapped-in battery triggers a fire, who is liable? If you get a lemon?
I agree battery changes need to be easy, but to make swapping work would be a serious standardization and administrative challenge.
You don’t own batteries- you just get to rent them. Yeah- they’ll go there.
Australia floods: Swimming crocodile and wallaby captured as planes submerged
(Reuters reprint)
According to a study released in Nature Communications last week, researchers discovered dangerous levels of hexavalent chromium in samples of ash left behind by the Kincade and Hennessey fires in 2019 and 2020.
Well, that’s fun…
Going to need a plus 3σ line, maybe 4σ too 
Beijing shivers through coldest December on record
The study also confirmed that a series of heat waves from August to November raised the temperature by a record high for this time of year. The surges in these months amounted to two to five degrees Celsius above the historical average
Starts with this little wonder:
1. The U.S. county most often in a hurricane forecast cone in 2023 was in Maine.
Uruguay imports its oil, so it had a problem. Demand for energy in the country had grown by 8.4% the previous year and household energy bills were increasing at a similar rate. The 3.4 million-strong population was becoming restless. Lacking alternatives, President Tabaré Vázquez was forced to buy energy from neighbouring states at higher prices, even though Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay had a mutual aid agreement in case of emergency conditions.
To escape the trap, Vázquez needed rapid solutions. He turned to an unlikely source: Ramón Méndez Galain, a physicist who would transform the country’s energy grid into one of the cleanest in the world.
Today, the country has almost phased out fossil fuels in electricity production. Depending on the weather, anything between 90% and 95% of its power comes from renewables. In some years, that number has crept as high as 98%.
