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Why waste your energy with 10 minutes charging and grid failure.
We can have battery stations like gas stations with efficient
chargers.
Just need a removable battery pack on cars and use a fork lift.
All done in less than 10 minutes....?

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Why waste your energy with 10 minutes charging and grid failure.
We can have battery stations like gas stations with efficient
chargers.
Just need a removable battery pack on cars and use a fork lift.
All done in less than 10 minutes....?

Sure, and you might be trading your brand new battery pack for one
that's on it last charge. SInce you were using it when it died, its up
to you to buy another new battery pack.


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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Gary Tait]

[email protected] wrote in @g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

Why waste your energy with 10 minutes charging and grid failure.
We can have battery stations like gas stations with efficient
chargers.
Just need a removable battery pack on cars and use a fork lift.
All done in less than 10 minutes....?

Probably needs a skilled technician. And the infrastuctore to store and
move the batteries about, and track their wherabouts.

 

[Nobody]

Sure, and you might be trading your brand new battery pack for one
that's on it last charge. SInce you were using it when it died, its up
to you to buy another new battery pack.

If you're going the battery-swapping route, the batteries would be leased
rather than owned.

THINK is planning to lease the battery to keep costs down (the battery is
around half the cost of the vehicle):

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/08/01/100138830/index.htm

Although the article doesn't say so, allaying concerns about replacement
costs may also be a factor.

 

[Jasen Betts]

Sure, and you might be trading your brand new battery pack for one
that's on it last charge. SInce you were using it when it died, its up
to you to buy another new battery pack.

it'd probably be some sort of rental scheme

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

it'd probably be some sort of rental scheme

Scheme implies fraud. Also, if its so easy to remove and replace,
what is to stop thieves from stealing the battery pack?


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Gary Tait]

it'd probably be some sort of rental scheme

Something like welding gas bottles I presume.

With those, one puts an initial deposit on the first bottle and fill, and
then exchanges the empty bottle for a full one, for the cost of the gas
(processing and purifying it, and bottling and trasnportation of it and
empty bottle back.)

You have to go back to the same vendor though, to get a full one.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Scheme implies fraud.

Only in AmE.

Also, if its so easy to remove and replace,
what is to stop thieves from stealing the battery pack?

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:15:31 GMT, the renowned "Michael A. Terrell"

Probably the same thing that keeps them from picking up cars with
a forklift and putting them on a flatbed today. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich