stopcrazypp
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We discussed all different kinds of payment schemes in the "how it will be accomplished" thread:So more than $30 per swap and you would stick with a free Supercharger?
At what price per swap would you say, "this isn't worth it, I will wait the 10-20 minutes and just use a Supercharger at the same location."
If Tesla said, "Pay $100 per month, commit to a contract for 8 years, now and you get 100 battery swaps over the next 8 years" would you pay it?
So you would be paying about $100 per month and have the ability to swap about once per month.
Or would you just use the free Supercharger at the same location?
-Pay per swap and end up with a different battery at end of trip
-Monthly battery lease and a reduced vehicle price (like Better Place)
-Battery rental fee and get your own battery back at the end of a trip
-One time swap fee during car purchase (similar to supercharging)
-$12k replacement battery option gives you free swaps
They are not necessarily mutually exclusive (Tesla can do all at the same time). If that thread have not been derailed we may have made some progress toward figuring out which one is best, but I think we are out to time now (only 2 days left).
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Tesla has not reached the tech limit for charging. 240kW is about the limit for a cable based connection. Above that, Tesla will need an automated under-the-car power connection (at which point it's very similar to battery swapping, since you need robotics). And batteries still have plenty of room to grow in capacity.What will be the use of creating a capital-intensive network of swap stations when supercharger (faster charging times) or battery tech (more miles per charge) becomes good enough that we won't need to swap batteries.Or is Tesla throwing in the towel and saying that this tech has reached it limit, now we need to rely on the swap-the-battery method?
But the problem is 240kW chargers and large capacity batteries are not likely going to come before Gen III. Swapping gives another option to bridge that gap. If consumers don't like the idea, then so be it, but it's another option that will expand the EV market. And I think from mainstream media comments, the general public does like the swap idea. The challenge is an attractive economic model and expanding the network gradually based on demand (not like BP).
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