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A perfect solution would be to switch your empty battery with a full one and just go. Let the charging station fill it up. Are there any drawbacks to this?
by babuskov 13y ago
A perfect solution would be to switch your empty battery with a full one and just go. Let the charging station fill it up.
Are there any drawbacks to this?
- UncleChis 13y agoI thought of the same idea. May be removing/replacing a whole set of battery is not that simple.
- dangero 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY Tesla already demoed this.
- aryastark 13y agoThis is pretty cool. But the problems I see are infrastructural scaling issues. To get a 2min throughput, you'd need at least 15 batteries stored below. That may sound reasonable, but then you realize it's only Tesla. And probably only compatible with one model of Tesla. Not very future-proof. I don't have audio at the moment, so maybe he discussed that. Charger stations seem the better option. But I still think there could be bottleneck issues if electric cars really took off. You could reach some midpoint somewhere, say, Primm, NV, and be stuck there circling lots for hours waiting for a charger station to free up (assuming one could circle a lot for extend periods of time on a dead battery). The gas station there is pretty much hell on earth already.
- marvin 13y agoTesla have already announced that they will build multiple vehicles with the same battery form-factor as the Model S. (I mean, you wouldn't even need a press release to know this - it's blatantly obvious that Tesla will do their best to capitalize on the massive investment that the Supercharger network represents).
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- smackfu 13y agoA new battery is not as good as a few years old one. So equal swapping one for the other doesn't quite work. Tesla's proposed solution is that you have to come back and pick up your battery.