On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Dennis Miles via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Certainly the BEV dan be designed to make the battery swappable Indeed, Tesla has already done that. I'm sure most here have already seen this, but even so it's worth the few minutes to watch it again: http://www.teslamotors.com/batteryswap In less time than it takes for a gasoline-powered car (with a tank presumably with only fumes left) to pull up and drive away, not one but *two* Tesla Ss pull up over the robot and get batteries swapped and drive away. Musk, for all his awkward self-effacing demeanor, is a great showman. I'm personally guessing that this type of battery swap is soon going to be remembered as the same sort of quaint anachronism as the flip-out turn signals of the '50s; I think we'll see battery capacity improvements easily outpace automated battery swap adoption. The future is going to mostly be slow-ish charging in parking spots with limited numbers of fast-charging stations clustered mostly along the interstates. But, still...there's no denying the sheer rocketman awesomeness of the Tesla battery swap! Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140828/93ad19fc/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
