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user-inactivated  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elon Musk’s sleight of hand

    The snake? Tesla's been researching anything that might make the charging more efficient. They are developing a battery swap drivethrough where the car drives over a hole at Tesla stations and robot arms swap the entire battery pack with a fully charged one, automagically. If they can develop a simple technology to make charging at parking spots and at home easier, you can be sure they'll chase it.

Wait, I got lost in your post a bit -- I've been reading about this idea of trading off batteries with the last person who used that charging station and it seems like a brilliant temporary solution to the long charging waits we've got now. What's the skepticism?





veen  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The article tries to claim that these features are hinting at a self-driving car future and that's what I'm disagreeing with. I think it's a very cool and useful feature, but I don't think they develop it (solely) for a driverless future.

user-inactivated  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah. Yeah I haven't heard about it from that angle at all.

OftenBen  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    What's the skepticism?

The automagic bit.

user-inactivated  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Technology they have at the goddamn Blue Bell factory.

OftenBen  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not at the scale you would need for those stations to be economically feasible they don't.

user-inactivated  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, yeah. Those batteries are like 1200 pounds, for one. But it's all theoretically possible, and Elon Musk has a way of making the theoretically possible happen.

OftenBen  ·  3510 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No I agree, I'm just saying that's the part people are skeptical about.