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Harris Ranch is getting first battery swap station
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Johan
Ex got M3 in the divorce, waiting for EU Model Y!
Properly designed, the life of the car. Easily. Any Mechanical Engineer would agree.
thelastdeadmouse
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Yep. I'm sure Tesla isn't cheaping out on materials, and with decent materials as long as a fastener is used with appropriate torque and you use the proper tooling to tighten and loosen it, a bolt and its socket can go through thousands of cycles with no appreciable wear.
The only thing that would concern me is if a car in the salt belt of the north east hadn't has its battery removed in a long time, there could be issues with bolts ceasing from corrosion and could be damaged if too much torque was applied. This is another problem that the use of proper materials could pretty much eliminate though.
LargeHamCollider
Battery cells != scalable
Video of Swap in action with Elon Speech: Tesla P85D Battery Swap In Less Than 1 Min - YouTube
edit: apparently this is old news, must have missed it.
edit: apparently this is old news, must have missed it.
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JRP3
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palmer_md
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I stopped in on my way south on Friday to watch the Formula E race and I fully expected to see some action due to the holiday weekend travel, but it was essentially shuttered (all the Tesla equipment and cars were locked inside). Same on the way back home (but I was travelling late at night, so perhaps there could have been activity during earlier hours).
FredTMC
Model S VIN #4925
What did you think of the experience? Would you do it again? Tesla charge you any $$?
It's $80 for two ways...would do it every time except dinner time, because that's prime rib time. =)
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$40 each way... not bad! I may try getting on the list next month for my umpteenth Model S SF<->LA trip =)
Did the battery they lend you charge up to at least 265 @ 100%, or 238 @ 90% at your other SpC stop(s)? i.e. not appear to be heavily used 85kWh battery.
Did the battery they lend you charge up to at least 265 @ 100%, or 238 @ 90% at your other SpC stop(s)? i.e. not appear to be heavily used 85kWh battery.
I wish TM would drop the whole battery swap thing. It has always been disingenuous. I think it was about continuing to qualify for the CARB zev credits. Then they changed the rules so that it would only count based on the number of swaps you actually did, and the interest in this dropped magically. Just shut it down
Johan
Ex got M3 in the divorce, waiting for EU Model Y!
I wish TM would drop the whole battery swap thing. It has always been disingenuous. I think it was about continuing to qualify for the CARB zev credits. Then they changed the rules so that it would only count based on the number of swaps you actually did, and the interest in this dropped magically. Just shut it down
Yeah I kind of don't see this whole thing going anywhere soon. But they did this whole hyped-up demo and I guess they need to follow up somehow, or lose face?
With the 70 battery and everything new coming maybe it will be a "Swap lottery" in the end? You pull in, swap, and as you drive off if you're lucky you got an 85kWh D-pack, if not so lucky you got a B-revision 60 kWh pack
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