Haakon
has an accommodating arse
No, that’s been considered and rejected by the industry. Battery packs are not a big Energiser D cell - they’re complex. There are built in electronics, there are cooling systems plumbed into the cars, there are canbus interactions etc etc. Swap and go is not a thing...I've been musing over the electric car and it's recharging requirements for ages and I can't recall if I've mentioned it here.
Swap and go batteries are the only way to go, pull into a servo and swap out low batteries for full ones and off you go. Charging might be ok for city cars but then you need long distance ones in the big country. There is no easy solution in this country.
Add into that the fact that it’s the single most expensive component of your pride and joy that can be damaged and degraded by abuse and do you want to be handing that off and getting a pack with an unknown history?
Fast charging is good enough now and getting better fast. The road trip scenario is rare for a heavily urbanised country like Australia. If you are one of the small proportion of the population who regularly does more than 5-600 kms in a day and never needs to eat/pee than an EV might not be your thing.
Longest drive I ever do is going home to Melbourne from Canberra, and a Model 3 does that 800kmish run with 30-40 min stopped at Gundagai or Aulbury or somewhere along the way. I hate that drive, I always stop for a leg stretch and a “get out of the bloody car for a bit” stop anyway...