Customers who want to buy an electric car face the dilemma of either paying more to have a big battery pack and a long range or being forced to charge up their EVs more often.
Paris-based start-up EP Tender believes it has eliminated the need to choose between cost and range. It’s plan? Battery trailers.
“We are solving the issue of making EVs which are affordable convenient on long distances,” CEO Jean-Baptiste Segard said.
EP Tender is named after small tender boats that service big ships. The company wants to locate compounds of rentable trailers on major holiday routes. EV drivers will pull up, wait for the trailer to autonomously hook to the back of the car, and then benefit from an extra 60 kilowatt-hours of battery power to take them to their destination or the next trailer compound.
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