NigelM
Recovering Member
I was not a swap advocate, but after Elon's tweet of a 45 second swap, I think I see where he's going with this.
Same here. But I'm thinking power swap and not physical battery swap.
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I was not a swap advocate, but after Elon's tweet of a 45 second swap, I think I see where he's going with this.
Same here. But I'm thinking power swap and not physical battery swap.
Honestly, I really do have to wonder at the imagination of the arm chair engineers that frequent TMC.
I was not a swap advocate, but after Elon's tweet of a 45 second swap, I think I see where he's going with this.
Imagine a few years from now. Tesla has licensed the charger and swap technology. Several different cars are able to use them (plus Xs, MS and Genlll). You pull up to a site and need to charge your pack. All 12 supercharger bays have cars in them. You see 4 more cars parked nearby, obviously waiting their turn. While you are sitting there trying to decide if you should wait around for an open bay or eat first, you notice 3-4 cars roll up on the swapper and get a fully charged up battery. You are contemplating a situation that could easily take over an hour to be charged up with the supercharger. Those cars are headed to the freeway on ramp in minutes. Hmmmm........
Couldn't have said it better (><) .Nigel to charge 85KW of power in 45 seconds would require a charge of over 6MW. That is over 6 million watts. A charge of that magnitude would probably literally blow up the lithium batteries and the entire swap station with it.
Honestly, I really do have to wonder at the imagination of the arm chair engineers that frequent TMC.
Nigel to charge 85KW of power in 45 seconds would require a charge of over 6MW. That is over 6 million watts. A charge of that magnitude would probably literally blow up the lithium batteries and the entire swap station with it.
Honestly, I really do have to wonder at the imagination of the arm chair engineers that frequent TMC.
Kilovolts != Megawatts. It does mean it can travel at least a few inches through the air to electrocute you however.
maybe next generation of wireless charging from tesla (next major announcement which year don't know). It is interesting because it will take away charging adapter and all the EV can take use of it (maybe wrong but cool idea)
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...PDUa6FF8bKiwLbq4CgDQ&ved=0CFcQ9QEwBg&dur=3367
I did some quick calculations and it turns out that you could charge a Tesla in about .000001 seconds (1 microsecond) with a lightning bolt. Why does't Musk just do that??? What a goofball trying to swap batteries when some lightning is all you need.