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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by bryanlarsen on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:19AM (#32214306)
That's FUD as far as I'm concerned. If they were just aiming for regulatory credits it weighs have been far cheaper to use human labor to do the swaps than to develop the robotic apparatus they developed.

Tesla did a decent market test on batteries, the test failed and they moved on.

Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by dangrossman on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:14PM (#32216099)
The "market test" was a shack across the street from a 100% free Tesla Supercharger station. To use said shack, you had to be one of a select group invited, make an appointment days in advance, pay a fee, and risk that you're trading your $20K battery for a worse one out of someone else's car. They invited a couple owners and journalists to do a few swaps for the magazines, collected their extra ZEV credits, and then disconnected the phone and let the one person staffing the place go back to his normal job. If that looks like an honest market test to you, then I don't know what else to say.