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artis  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It’s time to make the call – fossil fuels are finished. The rest is detail.

    But it's not "recyclable" either. You burn it up and it's gone. The win gasoline has is effectively "rapid charging" - I can pour 120 miles into my Benelli in about 30 seconds. But hey - right now, a Tesla Supercharger will dump 170 miles into your Tesla in an hour. Long-haul trucking?

Do you think we're likely to see battery swaps for the people who need rapid charging?





kleinbl00  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Never.

You're much better off tucking batteries in odd corners where they don't interfere with things. You shape them like wadded up bunches of playdough and tuck them under the seats. Pretty much anywhere "accessible" you'd put batteries you'd rather put cargo anyway.

Presume you've got only a 200lb battery pack (you're more likely to have 800-1500lbs). Offloading 200 lbs of barbells out of the trunk isn't a quick thing you'd want to do at service stations; a unitary thing under the chassis ain't gonna happen.