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Interesting. Not long ago Better Place (at least in Denmark) went bankrupt, and now the Renault Fluence-owners are having problems due to all chargers (even hom

Interesting. Not long ago Better Place (at least in Denmark) went bankrupt, and now the Renault Fluence-owners are having problems due to all chargers (even home-installed onces) are/were connected to Better Place, and isn't providing any electricity right now. There's also the entire problem with the car-owners only renting the battery.. Anyways, Tesla were smart; they made a product people desired before building expensive battery-swap infrastructure. In Denmark, only about 200-250 cars that could use the battery-swap facilities were sold, so no wonder the company went bankrupt.

gcb0 13y ago
That may work for model s market... But even they came up with model cheap, this will be all kinds of nightmare from smart ppl "returning" all sorts of junk batteries.
- kalleboo 13y ago
  If all batteries are built and sold by Tesla, it would be easy to put battery health monitoring in there to test them before swapping them out. The cars are already all online and pinging home their battery level (see the stories about Tesla contacting owners who left their car in a garage and their battery is about to be irrecoverably discharged)
  - gcb0 13y ago
    (cheap) nature will find a way :)