When I watched the video the thought occurred to me that unlike BeP, to provide the technology to do the swapping, all Tesla has to do is reproduce the already well-proven battery insertion robot technology used in their factory as - apparently - there is no whizzo clamping system etc - it just undoes the bolts used to bolt the battery into place in the factory.
That alone (if true) will save a serious amount of money. My issue is this:- Would you, as the careful owner of a relatively low miles 85kW Model S be entirely happy to swap your cherished and pampered battery for Lord-knows-what at a 'Tesla Station'? I, too, hope Mr Musk has something clever in mind to make this idea work. I do like the 'fast or free' idea, though. On its own that might just swing it. MW On 21 Jun 2013, at 19:49, Chris Tromley wrote: > I have tremendous respect for Tesla, but I think they've taken a seriously > wrong turn here. Swapping has been debated ad nauseum. It's an enticing > concept, but there are far too many ways it can fail in the real world. > Elon better have something very clever up his sleeve or this will likely > turn into a very visible failure. Hopefully it just disappears quietly. > > Chris > On Jun 21, 2013 8:17 AM, "Cor van de Water" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130622/07a99004/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)
