A whole new kind of sticker shock.
It's obvious what we need here, if we are going to be dumb enough to keep pushing electric cars on the public. We need cars designed with easily removeable batteries, so that we could pull into battery stations and swap out the depleted battery pack for a fully-charged battery pack. The swap would take about a minute, once the design was worked out and implimented.
It's the only answer that remotely makes sense with electric cars, which take way too long to charge, and the batteries of which don't last long enough and are too expensive to replace.
Scotty Kilmer on YT was talking about a car company designing their cars around a replaceable battery pack. They plan to rent the batteries to you, you can pull into one of their swap stations, once your car is in the automated swapping machine it takes about 8 minutes to swap in a freshly charged battery. No long charge times, no need to buy new batteries. Interesting business model.
That 29k will not disappear, just a perpetual payment. Wow that worked out so wonderfully for them. Something about owning nothing and some other thing that doesn't matter
$29K buys a lot of gasoline.
They could have looked at factories/plants to see that's what they were already doing for forklifts and what not. Forcing shit to work doesn't work. Just look at what others have implemented (that's working for them) and find a way to do that. Then build on that.
Tesla did that early on. 90 second swaps I think.
The battery was intended to be a loaner, you would get a full one, leave yours there till it was changed, and come pick it up.
People didn't come get their own battery back. So the service was cancelled.
The test facility was in California. Californians are why we can't have nice things.
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