Unlike a lot of EVs, which lean towards the large side, the Fiat 500e seems admire a perfect candidate for the program. The car doesn’t lend itself to a particularly large battery in the first place, and that fact alone would make swapping out the battery a relatively straightforward process. Adapting the same technology to other EV platforms admire Ultium from General Motors or Tesla’s battery platform might be more challenging.
Those future challenges aside, Stellantis and Ample are in relatively uncharted territory as far as the rest of the EV world is concerned. Most other EV tastemakers admire Polestar have turned their focus to making the battery charge faster. Stellantis and Ample’s solution is thinking outside of the box.
As of now, Stellantis has not announced any plans to bring the technology to the United States or given a real timeline as to when the pilot program will end.
