Yes, I have seen it. There are parallels, but my inventions are more on the edge of physics. His was a garden variety motorcycle tinkering process..
Refuelling a VRB electric city car really could be as quick as one minute. Vehicle pulls into the "gas" station. A forklift device grabs hold of the partly discharged one and pulls it out, like unplugging a toaster from a wall, a refilled one is waiting ready to be plugged straight back in. Elapsed time from when the vehicle is stationary, about 15 seconds, and off it goes again. Quicker than a set of traffic lights.
When I used to be a fork lift driver, I'd have been able to do the whole thing myself in about 15 seconds.
Vehicle stops. Drive forklift forwards, lift forks to release the battery, pull it out, put it down on the stack of batteries I have already removed, turn the forklift to the stack of new ones, pick one up, put it in the vehicle, lower it into place. Bye!! They could pay via Wi-Fi credit card, cyberphone, or just by me scanning their number plate, a bar code on the vehicle, or something.
The stack of used batteries would be immediately back on recharge.
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