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To: ckilmer
Waiting for the Tesla battery swap stations at five mile intervals along the road.
5 posted on 07/07/2013 9:43:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Doesn’t seem like having two (or more) battery sets to swap out is a particularly economical means of providing motive power. Those battery packs can’t be cheap, by any means, and the machinery to carry out the swap has to be of almost industrial-grade fork lift variety.

Plus the charging station....

It still makes more sense to have an on-board hydrogen fuel cell for the generation of electricity to provide motive power.


16 posted on 07/07/2013 9:51:30 AM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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To: Navy Patriot

current Tesla batteries for the 60k S class model go about 280 miles per charge http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range


17 posted on 07/07/2013 9:51:37 AM PDT by ckilmer
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