Last July, the Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation announced a partnership with Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. to start the commercialization of replaceable, rechargeable cartridge batteries initially for transporters in its fleet.
This long recharging time leads to increased logistics downtime due to numerous vehicles recharging at or around the same time. Yamato Transport wants to build a complete green delivery eco-system in which the cartridge battery-based scheme is central. As it wants to include all its transport and delivery partners in the program, it envisions a community that promotes the use of green power.
Consortium partner engineers also theorize that with the pull-out batteries there will be lesser burden on recharging infrastructure. Charging can be done in one place and delivered to specific sites where vehicles can do swaps. This also means less downtime as it reduces transport vehicles’ recharging time.
swappable batteries can not be structural — additional weight / less cargo — big problem in commercial use battery swapping is nonsense