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-Don____________
I can attest to the latter.Originally Posted by True Blue
One of the journalists testing our Kona EV went over some crazy surface during offroad testing and dinged the battery... the whole car was considered unsafe and we had to crush it lol
It's going to continue being a problem until there is an industry-wide standard replaceable battery pack
....seemed so easy back in the stone age '80's
why can't they make a full-scale version of this? ^^^
unplug, swap, snap back together, and back out racing in 2 minutes
-Don____________
a single standard product only happens in a state controlled, non competitive market. Enjoy your Trabant
That will happen eventually as the business model evolves - may eventually evolve to a standard like Android that several manufacturers can use or even AA, AAA, C, D, batteries from different manufacturers. The value isn't going to be in hardware but in software as the product matures - still early in the lifecycle compared to 100 years of ICE development.It's going to continue being a problem until there is an industry-wide standard replaceable battery pack
....seemed so easy back in the stone age '80's
why can't they make a full-scale version of this? ^^^
unplug, swap, snap back together, and back out racing in 2 minutes
Australia is testing electric Heavy Class 8 trucks with this technology. Instead of stopping to charged they pull the battery rack and swap it with an already charged unit. Takes the "refuel" time down to like 30 minutes.It's going to continue being a problem until there is an industry-wide standard replaceable battery pack
....seemed so easy back in the stone age '80's
why can't they make a full-scale version of this? ^^^
unplug, swap, snap back together, and back out racing in 2 minutes
Not surprised at all they the write off so easily.
Ever see one of those videos when someone punctures a cell phone battery or cuts one of the cells from a tool battery.
Times that by a lot. Lol
No one wants to take that risk.
China is already doing this with ev cars. Makes a lot more sense then waiting an hour or more to fully charge.
Just waiting for this crap to be over so we can travel again
None of this makes any sense or sounds cost effect. Are spare battery packs available for everyone. Many of Chinas cars have a 50 kilometer range (small battery pack). The trucking industry is so competitive and cut throat that this makes no sense in N. America. I would imagine to replace the battery in a Tesla would be equivalent to and frame off restoration. If trucks are going to be electric they need to be hybrids. The new efuel would be the most cost effective way to do this. In my understanding that's what hydrogen will do coupled with an electric motor but I can't believe it will be cost effective either especially in the trucking industry. A new transport truck ne averages roughly $250,000 imagine what all this will do to that price tag loaded with major logistic and possibly reliability issues. It's going to get crazy over the next ten years.
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car sharing or Bixie bikes are analogous to this idea. It assumes all batteries and users are the same and equal. This also assumes batteries will be where needed. I'll use my own example of 50+ pair of reading glasses. My glasses all migrate to where ever I'm working. As soon as I move to another room or another job, there's no glasses where I need them.
The Bixies frequently need to be trucked from the low points in the city, back up to the high points.
it's battery socialism
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