On Oct 17, 2014, at 12:25 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> First Tesla Battery Swap Station Online Soon I gotta give Tesla props for the fantastic engineering feat they've pulled off with this one, but I just don't see it being practical. First, it only makes sense if it's a reasonably universal design. You don't need to take your Ford car only to Ford gas stations, and your Honda car only to Honda gas stations, and so on. And we're a loooooooong way from the kind of standardization on battery pack design for a universal battery swap station. Hell, we don't even know for sure yet that any other manufacturer is even going to be interested in it as a possibility. And then...well aside from the oft-cited concerns of getting somebody else's possibly mistreated battery (which could be solved by basing bank account credit and debits based on the actual capacity of the battery), there's a bigger concern. If the Tesla battery station can change your battery in two minutes, what's to stop car parts thieves from doing the same? Somebody siphons the gas out of your tank and it sucks, but it's hardly the end of the world. Somebody steals $30,000 worth of batteries from your car and turns it into an oversized shopping cart, you've got a wee bit of a problem. Yes, of course; Tesla will have some sort of security in place to prevent that kind of thievery. But people still hack ATMs despite <i>their</i> security, and banks have been at this sort of thing a lot longer than Tesla has. So, again, great job with the engineering...but, thanks, but no thanks. 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/20141017/b7ad3543/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)
