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Is there ever going to come a point where rather than hooking my Tesla up and charging it I just drive up to the station and swap out the battery for a new char

• andrewtbham 13y ago
  they have a patent for dual batteries where you keep your main one but get another battery for long trips. there is also an ideal area in the back of the frunk for putting another battery. however there is no indication they are moving to that strategy.
• chaz 13y ago
  The problem is that it's 7 feet long, 4 feet wide, and weighs 1,000 lbs. It's also sealed into the chassis and makes up the floor of the car.
• fancyketchup 13y ago
  Probably not anytime soon. You can charge 240 miles of honest, comfortable, real-world, freeway-speed range while you sleep at night, and the same while you're at the office. Cross-country road trips are just about the only time the vast majority of people will ever need to charge at a location other than the origin or destination. Waiting for a supercharge doesn't add much time to the trip unless you normally tend to drive 10 hours straight without answering the call of nature. The superchargers are intended to be at locations and intervals where you would ordinarily stop anyway (to eat, use the facilities, stretch your legs, etc.). There are, of course, cases where a battery swap would be handy, but that's on the wrong side of the 80/20 problem.
• tjmc 13y ago
  Better Place was trying to do that in partnership with Renault. Unfortunately they didn't make it.