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Initially, the Tesla Model 3 was capable of swapping its battery quickly. IIRC it had the assistance of some sort of hydraulic lift (there's a Musk demo on yout
by justin66 7y ago
Initially, the Tesla Model 3 was capable of swapping its battery quickly. IIRC it had the assistance of some sort of hydraulic lift (there's a Musk demo on youtube, I'm sure). The car lost this capability when they added the armored skidpad needed to protect against road debris puncturing the battery.
- Reason077 7y agoIt's the Model S which had/has quick-swap capabilities. Tesla even built a couple of public swap stations in California at one point to test it out. The Model 3 has a different battery design that was never designed for swapping.
- justin66 7y agoYou're right, my typo, too late to correct. I was not aware there were ever public swap stations, I'd be super interested in reading about that. (in particular how the economics of battery swapping were predicted to work)
- toomuchtodo 7y agoThe public swap stations were a requirement to max out ZEV credit values. Once that was no longer a requirement, the capability was deprecated.
- Reason077 7y agoTrue. But while CARB rules may have provided the impetus for Tesla's battery swapping experiment, I don't think it changed the outcome of it.