New ways to keep your electric vehicle charged

Adoption of Electric Vehicles is booming, but there’s one fundamental problem that still needs to be solved. How do you keep them charged?

Some startups are proposing a simple solution: just swap the batteries.

Around San Francisco, one company is installing drive-in pods where robots swap an electric vehicle’s batteries for new ones, and in Taipei, battery swapping stations for mopeds are being installed around the city.

Reporter: Stephen Beckett

Producer: Osman Iqbal