Battery swap startup Ample publicly unveiled its second-generation station design in San Francisco today. This next chapter in US battery swaps is the culmination of thousands of previous swaps ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Battery swapping could theoretically get an EV fully charged in just five minutes. The first vehicles will be a fleet of shared Fiat 500e vehicles in Spain. Battery swapping could theoretically get an ...

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 ...

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 ...

EV battery swapping startup Ample has locked in two partnerships this month that will help fuel an expansion into Japan and New York City after years of working on the technology. The startup, which ...

San Francisco-based Ample has raised a $160 million Series C to scale its battery swapping service, the largest round yet for the 8-year-old startup that wants to completely rethink how we use ...