I always wondered why someone as smart as Tesla would stoop to the stupidest idea ever (battery swapping) for highway EV’s. Surely they understood EV’s enough to know that EV’s generally charge while parked, not while in use. But then Superchargers make it possible for distant convenient travel…
So how could Tesla be so dumb to invest in “battery swap”… The answer, is smarter than we thought… http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1097214_tesla-battery-swapping-useful-service-or-minimal-effort-for-extra-income It looks like all they had to do was demonstrate ONE working battery-swap station and then they got full extra credit for the California State requirement for full-range-replenishment in under 10 minutes. They met that goal (one station) and then collected $66,000,000 in EV credits! Not a bad return on investment in a side-show demo of stupid (but committee mandated) technology. Now if the public would just forget about “battery swap” as a crib for gas=pump dependency for anything more than Forkllifts and other unique 24/7 daily operations, we can get on with EVs and fast charging. We don’t need any more investor money spent down this rat hole.. Bob, WB4APR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150312/3612f53c/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)
