Levy Swap Overview
Levy Swap is the part of the Levy Fleets platform that treats the battery pack as its own asset — not just a percentage glued to a vehicle. It has two layers that share the same infrastructure but solve different problems.
What Levy Swap Includes
| Layer | What It Does | Who It's For |
|---|---|---|
| Battery Swap Operations | Per-pack State-of-Health (SoH), swap-station catalog, pack lifecycle, in-house swap workflow | Operators with full-time field techs |
| Juicer/Charger Marketplace | Bounty-based gig workers pick up low-battery vehicles, charge them, drop them in zones | Operators who want lower cost per swap |
You can run the first layer on its own — most operators do, especially in markets where gig-worker laws make a marketplace tricky. The Juicer marketplace builds on the same pack and lifecycle data and unlocks separately.
State of Charge vs. State of Health
Most fleet platforms show you State of Charge (SoC) — the battery percentage right now. Levy Swap adds State of Health (SoH) — how many cycles a pack has left, how its capacity has faded, and when it should be retired. SoH is the single biggest driver of fleet unit economics over a 24-month horizon.
Why This Matters
A shared scooter or e-bike pack costs $180 to $420, and pack lifetime ranges from 300 to 900 full-equivalent cycles depending on chemistry, temperature exposure, and charge habits. The spread between "managed" and "unmanaged" pack lifetime is roughly 2.5x.
Without SoH visibility, you replace packs reactively after sudden range collapse, and you rotate aging packs into the same high-mileage vehicles that wore them out. With SoH, you push aging packs into low-demand vehicles, retire packs before they cost you customer complaints, and forecast pack-replacement spend.
How the Pieces Fit Together
The platform tracks every pack from the moment you order it through to recycling. Each pack carries a QR code, has a lifecycle state, accumulates cycle data, and has a Levy SoH index between 0 and 100.
ordered → received → deployed → in_use → returned → recycled
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swap_in swap_out
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in-station ← → charging → charged
Vehicles still report battery percent on the same dashboards you already use. The new layer sits on top:
- Nightly SoH job reads the last 24 hours of telemetry from every pack and updates the SoH index, equivalent-full-cycles, capacity fade, and predicted end-of-life date.
- Swap stations track which packs are charged, which are charging, which slots are empty, and which packs are flagged for maintenance.
- Bounty engine (Juicer marketplace) generates per-vehicle bounties every five minutes when a subaccount has the marketplace enabled.
Where to Go Next
- New to all of this? Start with Getting Started.
- Want to understand how SoH is calculated and which IoT types are supported? See Battery State of Health.
- Running an in-house tech team? See In-House Swap Workflow.
- Considering Juicers? Start with Juicer Marketplace Overview, then read the legal and insurance section in the same article before you talk to your operator success contact.