emupilot
Active Member
I don't understand why you keep thinking that battery swap will be a car wash size building like Better Place. You make the assumption that it has to be big and cost a lot. Tesla could show us tomorrow something very small and inexpensive. That's the point of technology advancing. Better Place was like 1.0 (big, clunky and expensive). Surely Tesla can release a better 2.0 version that's much more advanced, smaller and cheaper.
For a one-stall superswapper to have a throughput of 10 swaps per hour, and if it takes an hour to fully charge a depleted pack, that means storage for 10 battery packs, electrical infrastructure for 10 simultaneous superchargers, and a climate controlled enclosure. That footprint is alot bigger than the stall where the swap actually occurs, although perhaps income from grid storage when the swapper is underutilized could help mitigate the cost.