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Re:Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Rein... by voqv on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:53AM (#18845557)
Won't be surprised that Tesla jumping on the chance to cancel the battery swap program when the reported popularity was low was due to something else.

It could be that a quick hot swap is technologically complicated, especially given Tesla manufacturing tolerances. Also if the hot swap fails, you're stranded without a car.

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Re:Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Rein... by figers on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:09PM (#18849455)
I have a Tesla and don't think that kind of hot swap is necessary with the supercharger network and ease of charging in my garage, what I would like to see is public pricing on them swapping my battery with a new one after 10 years.
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Re:Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Rein... by toomuchtodo on Monday January 07, 2019 @10:55AM (#18846152)
Tesla’s hot swap demo was a compliance hack to garner as many ZEV credits as possible in California. There was no way it was going to be rolled out if you observed how rapidly they rolled out Supercharger stations instead.
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