It is clearly practical for Teslas. Does anyone care is a different point.
I guess it could be like going to a Sunoco or an Exxon, you go to a Tesla or a Nissan. As far as theft goes, Tesla can just turn off the pack presumably. It could still be parted out. And it is far easier to walk off with a can of gas...how much does that pack weigh? You would have to show up with a lift truck of some sort to drive off with a Teals pack. I am doubtful this is a concern or unsurmountable. Tesla is in the business of seeing solutions and implementing them. Naysayers don't seem to bother them much. On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141017/9a57d92f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
