I figure I would throw my hat in the ring for a few ideas on the new Swap Solar batteries. I have not looked at any other posts so there might be some repeats of other people but here is what I came up with. I sat and thought what I might be interested in and thought of a few things over 30 minutes.
The first I thought of was a whole line of coolers of different sizes and capabilities. While the ice maker is very very cool, having an option of a more conventional 2 sided cooler to make one side a freezer and one side a cooler is im sure the next step. Smaller and larger units I am sure are on the horizon.
Next thought was electric transport. With the size of the battery I could really only thing they could be integrated into bikes, scooters and go karts. Looks far to big for stand up scooters and skateboards but I could be wrong. I’ve never held on before.
On the camping end, there are those all-in-one camping kitchens you can get. They fold up pretty flat and unfolds into a kitchen prep area. If one of those was available to put in a shed, off grid cabin, easy kitchen set up for a van or even a long term campsite would be cool. A place for an integrated cooler or fridge, some lighting and a 12 volt sink would be really really cool.
I also thought a small case or sleeve for the battery you slide it into that has its own outlets on it for portability. I see it capable for putting on the floorboard of a car and it has more output than a car AC out does. Being able to take the battery away from your more permanent site or to a little league game or whatever. Smaller than the big 60LB power stations but still a ton of power capability.
I see this being able to be integrated into some sort of pop up shade with built in lights on the underside. I’m always stringing 4 or 5 strings of LEDs together and tying them to the underside of a pop up shade. Having a all in one would be nice. There are those tall portable post lights that are getting popular now. Not just having a tall single light but with how large this battery is being able to attach more stings of LEDs to hang around camp from a central spot would be cool.
I also thought of tools like the EGO line of large riding lawn mowers. Motorized wheel barrows or dumping wagons. There are lots of larger scale tools that use swappable batteries or new ones like a dumping wagon that could hold 500lb. I know that would be really nice.
Also selling a separate charging base just for the battery would be really good. If the plan is to have a bunch of accessories that use this battery, having a AC base the battery clicks into would be nice. Then I don’t have to drag around a heavy power station just to charge my portable batteries. If the purpose is to make them portable, having a small AC charging base that I can take with me places makes a lot of sense.
This is just a few ideas I had for the new stuff, excited to see what’s in the future!
