Startup says battery swapping your EV faster than filling your car up with gas

Hawkeye10 said:
In UTOPIA only the very top layer, the bosses, get cars generally. If you have enough central bank digital currency AND enough social credit points you might be able to call a car if your owners (Carlin) approve of what you want it for.
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Did winnie the pooh tell you to say this?
 
Walt said:
Did you also know that cars can travel a mile in under a minute? This is much easier. It is moving two batteries a few yards.
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Kinda strange that no one who has used it over the last couple of years seems to be on Youtube talking about how great it is, no?
 
Walt said:
That is like saying gasoline powered cars are impossible, because teenage girls will never siphon their own gasoline out of a tank... We have mechanized tools that will replace the battery for them. They drive over the device, the device removes the huge battery from below the car, and puts in a new battery. The whole process takes well under a minute, and you are good to go.

Is this the future? Maybe or maybe not. But smarter people than TinkerBell are coming up with better ideas that they are testing now.
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We are decades away from something like that.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Kinda strange that no one who has used it over the last couple of years seems to be on Youtube talking about how great it is, no?
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It is proprietary technology, so they are trying to keep it under control. I have seen videos of it happening, but they are very careful to control the angles of the video so we cannot see the connectors. The connectors are where success or failure will happen. There is no difficulty in moving a battery a few yards in a minute. The difficulty is in a reliable connector.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
We are decades away from something like that.
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Robots at Amazon fulfillment warehouses have been doing just that for over a decade, so we are over a decade into doing that. The question is how we would do it with the more powerful car EV batteries, which are also less standardized, and have more commercial questions. The ideas are being tested now, not decades from now.
 
Walt said:
Did you also know that cars can travel a mile in under a minute? This is much easier. It is moving two batteries a few yards.
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Obviously, you know nothing about automobiles or their maintenance. Nuff said.
 
Walt said:
Refueling is not usually considered part of maintenance.
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Maintenance, as in setting the lift pads, lifting the car, disassembling, removal, inspect, clean, reinstall, assembly,
lower car, electrical test, backing car out and taking test drive.. That's your battery car, and small one at that.
 
RB 60 said:
Maintenance, as in setting the lift pads, lifting the car, disassembling, removal, inspect, clean, reinstall, assembly,
lower car, electrical test, backing car out and taking test drive.. That's your battery car, and small one at that.
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That is the way you replace a car battery meant to be replaced as maintenance. You go through complex steps to replace oil, because that too is meant as maintenance. If you are replacing a battery that is meant to be replaced as refueling, it will be designed to be very simple, much like refueling gasoline does not require you to remove the gas tank from the car.

Only with even moderate intelligence would have figured that out. I am not saying you have below average intelligence, but you clearly are telling us you have below average intelligence.
 
Celticguy said:
If you looked at the picture I sent you would see that the battery is the size of the entire space between the four wheels. This is necessary to distribute the 1-2000 pounds that the battery weighs. If you condense the same cubic inches it would fill the trunk which could render it swappable but place far too much weight on the rear tires to make it safe to drive.

If you get the weight down enough to allow for the physics the range would be vastly reduced.

You really need to learn something about how EVs work which includes how they are built.
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Methinks the engineers are smart enough to make it work without losing range. I suspect you're neither a mechanical nor electrical engineer so you have no idea what the constraints would be.
Case closed.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
Methinks the engineers are smart enough to make it work without losing range. I suspect you're neither a mechanical nor electrical engineer so you have no idea what the constraints would be.
Case closed.
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Methinks, that disconnecting a battery weighing upwards of a ton from a car, then removing it, then installing a new battery in its place and reconnecting it is not something that's going to be done in minutes.


That isn't faster than you can fill up your car...
 
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