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It appears they jack up the car, drop the floor out from under it, unbolt and drop the battery, bring another battery up under and re-bolt it. A very simple pr
by jlgreco 13y ago
It appears they jack up the car, drop the floor out from under it, unbolt and drop the battery, bring another battery up under and re-bolt it. A very simple procedure that is likely rather difficult to implement; interesting to think about what sort of machinery they have down in the pit to move the batteries around...
- tome 13y agoOh it was happening underneath. I couldn't even tell that! I thought the guy behind the car was doing something.
- jlgreco 13y agoYup, underneath. The battery makes up basically the whole underside of the car, it seems they drop it straight down. I have no idea how the power/data coupling works though, maybe that stuff just slots in?
- foobarian 13y agoDefinitely some interesting little details to iron out. The alignment should be easy. Just have to park within some tolerance, and the unbolting platform can rotate to adjust. I wonder about the unbolting. What if one of the (what seemed like) dozen screwdriver bits fails? Screw the rest back on and fail the procedure? Also can the re-bolting fail, e.g. by dropping the bolt? Would your car end up with fewer and fewer bolts over time? I guess the system should have a reservoir of bolts that it can reuse. Also wonder how this would handle east coast winters, what with all the ice that gets caked on the undercarriage. All in all I'm jealous of the engineers at Tesla who get to work on it :)
- drharris 13y ago> All in all I'm jealous of the engineers at Tesla who get to work on it :) This. I love my job, but this had me extremely jealous. This stuff is the future.