Electric vehicles (EVs) operable with exchangeable batteries and applications for locating kiosks of batteries and reserving batteries

An electric vehicle having an electric motor, comprising,

• at least two receptacle slots formed in the electric vehicle, the receptacle slots having at least one connection for providing power to the electric motor;
• at least two batteries configured for hand-insertion into the receptacle slots to enable electrical engagement of the batteries with the at least one connection when disposed in the receptacle slots and each of the batteries are further configured for hand-removal out of the receptacle slots, each of the batteries configured to store and supply charge to power the electric motor of the electric vehicle, wherein the batteries are exchangeable with other batteries by hand-removal and hand-insertion of batteries out of and into the receptacle slots, wherein each of said batteries has a portion that is accessible to enable its hand-removal and hand-insertion;
• wireless communication circuitry configured for wireless communication between the electric vehicle and a device when linked for wireless communication with an application of the device, the application having options specific to the electric vehicle and therefore designed to link with the electric vehicle;
• a computer on-board the electric vehicle, the computer is interfaced with the wireless communications circuitry and is configured to interface with the batteries via the connection to the receptacle slots to access a level of charge of the batteries present in the receptacle slots to enable data regarding the level of charge to be accessed by the application;
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• a display panel of the electric vehicle, the display panel configured to display information regarding the level of charge of the batteries in the receptacle slots.

A method for processing information regarding at least one battery of an electric vehicle having an electric motor, the at least one battery being replaceable by hand-removal and hand-insertion out of and into slot receptacles of the electric vehicle, comprising,

• communicating, by a computer of the electric vehicle, with at least one battery when in one of the slot receptacles, the communicating returning data that identifies a level of charge in the battery;
• communicating, by the computer of the electric vehicle, with a device having an application that is configured to link with the electric vehicle, the computer of the electric vehicle configured to provide data to the application regarding the identified level of charge,
• wherein the application is configured for communication with a server that manages communication with a plurality of kiosks having batteries for replacement of the at least one battery in the slot receptacles of the electric vehicle,
• wherein the server is configured to enable instruction to a control system of a kiosk of the plurality of kiosks, the instruction includes data indicative of a reservation for at least one battery that is available at the kiosk for use in the electric vehicle;
• wherein the application or the computer of the electric vehicle is configured to interface with the control system of the kiosk to control dispensing or release of the least one battery when the electric vehicle is present at the kiosk;
• wherein the least one battery has a portion that is accessible to enable its hand-removal and hand-insertion out of and into at least one of the slot receptacles of the electric vehicle.