Actually, Tesla designed the S and presumably X and 3 for quick swapping (to get around an ill-advised CA law). There is a video of them driving on and swapping 2 S's automatically in the time it takes to put gas in one Nissan ICE. The doesn't make them interchangeable, but it's not nothing. On Mar 2, 2016 1:13 PM, "Lee Hart via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote: > >> I know it's been looked at in more recent years, but the actual >> reasons for no one implementing such a scheme has, to me, been lost >> in the noise. >> > > Actually, battery leasing is very common for commercial and industrial EVs > (fork lifts, golf carts, etc.) Fleet operators like to control costs, and > hate surprises and down-time. Leasing gives them a dependable monthly cost, > no matter what happens. > > The company providing the batteries also likes it. They have a big > dependable customer, who pays the bills (or is easy to find and collect > from if they don't). The batteries are highly standardized. The vehicles > are built for easy battery swaps and maintenance and swaps. There are often > a large number of identical packs at the same location. All this makes > their job easier. > > The situation is a lot more difficult for individual consumer EVs. There > are no standard packs. The vehicles aren't built to allow fast battery > swaps. Customers are widely scattered. And, it's going to be harder to > collect from customers who don't pay. > > There's one more factor. Many consumers abuse rental property. "Hey, it's > a rental -- I can wreck it, because it's not mine." > > On the other side, I can also see fast-buck fear-mongers that will sell > people worthless battery leases or maintenance agreements. They are going > to give consumer battery leasing a bad reputation. > > -- > Knowledge is better than belief. Belief is when someone else does > your thinking. -- anonymous > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160302/57771c49/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
