Skating to where the puck is going

[Dharus]

Then you're left with a real chicken-or-egg type problem where nobody wants the cars because these stations aren't around and no station owner is going to spend $80,000 or whatever to put in this battery-swap bay for customers that probably don't exist yet.

Station owners usually have to pull out a underground tank every so often. Its expensive along those lines to do (without any pollution cleanup; with cleanup its easily 100k+). But your right about the chicken-egg problem. That's also why I think hybrids will rule for a while until other things are put in place.