Hopefully this prompts some battery alliances to form. Rather than everyone going out & certifying their own packs, there should be a couple standard form factors, that ebike makers pick from & use.<p>A year ago, Honda Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha teamed up for a motorcyle-scale battery effort, under a new company name Gachaco[1]. Their first effort seems to be based on the Honda Mobile Power Pack battery. That's a partial example. But just making a real standard, that anyone can use, still seems far off here. But now seems essential to keeping costs under control.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/honda-kawasaki-suzuki-and-yamaha-form-joint-battery-swapping-company-for-evs" rel="nofollow">https://www.techradar.com/news/honda-kawasaki-suzuki-and-yam...</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30874219" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30874219</a>