Roland, As ever, you are way ahead of the pack! (sorry - awful pun intended!)
MW On 21 Jun 2013, at 20:22, Roland Wiench wrote: > This is a way to remove a battery pack and the motor and transmissions for > replacement and/or repair. > > My first EV built in 1975 was done this way. The vehicle was hoisted up and > a dolly was roll under the vehicle. To remove the battery pack was unplug > and eight bolts were move. The battery boxes was then drop straight down. > > Also the motor and transmission can be drop straight down by removing the > bolts on the cross members and unplugging the power and control cables. The > last time I done this was on 4 Sept 2009, I time my self on how long it > would take to remove the motor and transmission and replace them with a > spare set. > > It only took me about 60 minutes to remove and about the same of amount of > time to install the spare units. > > I challenge my ICE mechanic to see if he can do a engine and transmission > exchange in the same amount of time. > > Roland > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Tromley" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 12:49 PM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Tesla Parades EV Battery Swap Technology > > >> 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: >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130622/d00b710a/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)
