The Tesla video shows them swapping a Tesla pack on-stage in 90 secs flat from driving onto the swapping unit until driving off.
While they swap the packs in 2 Teslas, they have a parallel video of someone filling his gas tank as fast as he could - which takes approx 4 minutes (at the fastest station they could find nearby), so they actually have to wait for him to complete the fillup after the second Tesla S has left the swapping station... The comment: now you can choose between free and fast. (The fast-charging of Tesla is free, the fast-swapping apparently costs about the same as a fillup - they show the end result of the fillup at $99 so that may be an indication of the price, I did not catch how much a swap actually is going to cost. http://www.teslamotors.com/batteryswap Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brucedp5 Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Tesla Parades EV Battery Swap Technology http://www.dailytech.com/Tesla+to+Show+Off+EV+Battery+Swap+Tech+This+Wee k/article31784.htm [image] Tesla to Show Off EV Battery Swap Tech This Week by Tiffany Kaiser Jun 18 2013 Source: Giga Om [image http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/30878_large_Tesla-Model-S-Superchargi ng-GS-thumb-598xauto-6081.jpg (Source: consumerreports.org) ] Tesla will demo its battery swap technology for the Model S Tesla will be demonstrating its battery swap technology this week in hopes of successfully launching an alternative to electric vehicle (EV) charging. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the automaker will show off swappable batteries at its design studio in Hawthorne, California this Thursday evening at 8 p.m. PST. The idea behind battery swapping is to easily open the car chassis to pull the battry out and replace it with a fully-charged one. This saves the driver from having to wait for their battery to charge before traveling -- especially on a road trip that's longer than the available electric range of their battery. This technology hasn't really taken off yet (although it was attempted before by Better Place and automaker Renault). The main issue is infrastructure, mainly because it's so expensive to deploy. But with Tesla's ever-increasing number of Super Charger stations, adding a battery swap service to these areas could be an ideal solution. Tesla's Model S is capable of battery swap, but it hasn't really been implemented yet. Tesla is looking to change that this Thursday. Tesla has proved to be the superhero of the American electric car startup world. It was approved to receive a $465 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in June 2009, which was part of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. The loan was to be repaid by 2022, but in March of this year, Tesla received permission to pay the loan back five years early by mid-2017. However, Tesla managed to repay the whole sum last month -- nine years earlier than expected from the original 2022 due date. This was mainly due to its decision to issue more stock the week before. Tesla said it wanted to sell about $830 million in shares, and use $450 million in convertible senior notes (which are due in 2018) along with sales of 2.7 million shares (valued at about $229 million at the time) to pay back its federal loan. This is an especially crucial detail in Tesla's history, considering other plug-in hybrid electric automaker Fisker Automotive (which also received a DOE loan) has failed miserably. Before that, Tesla started shipping 500 Model S sedans per week starting in March of this year, exceeding the sales outlook of 4,500 posted in the February shareholder letter. In fact, Tesla managed to sell 4,900 Model S sedans in the first quarter. The automaker plans to deliver 21,000 total for the year, which slightly exceeds previous forecasts of about 20,000. For Q1 2013, Tesla reported a net income of $11.2 million (a huge increase from an $89.9 million loss in the year-ago quarter). Excluding certain items, Tesla's profit came in at 12 cents a share, which was a boost from a loss of 76 cents a share in Q1 2012. Analysts expected a profit of about 4 cents a share. Revenue also saw a huge year-over-year boost, totaling $562 million (up from $30.2 million in the year-ago quarter). For those who can't make it to Tesla's California studio this week, don't fret -- Tesla will post a video of the demo on Twitter that night. [(c) dailytech.com] http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/06/tesla-motors-inc-tsla-battery-swap/ Tesla CEO Elon Musk : Battery Swap Demo Thurs . ValueWalk-7 hours ago Battery swapping is important for development of electric vehicles as Tesla ... Of course being able to swap batteries out of an electric vehicle means that it ... http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-will-unveil-thursday-its-long-rumored-batte ry-swap-technology-model-s-attempt-quell-concerns Tesla Will Unveil On Thursday Its Long-Rumored Battery Swap ... International Business Times-8 hours ago Later this week in Palo Alto, Calif., electric-vehicle skeptics will get some answers about Tesla's long-rumored battery pack swap technology, addressing their ... http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/06/tesla-parades-ev-battery-swap-technolog y/ Tesla Parades EV Battery Swap Technology -by Edwin Kee 06/18/2013... Driving an electric car is very different from using a smartphone which runs on batteries. Of course, for handsets that ... 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