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Yay! The TMC website is coming of age. Haters are descending upon us, armed with their usual confusion, lack of knowledge, badly-thought-through points and complete absence of goodwill.

I think they are filming it and will present a web-video of it like 90minutes after the event starts, so, 9:30pm PST.

Great idea. There is tons of conjecture and debate over whether what they are doing is "right" or not :) Would be great to keep that away from discussions actual owners are having about their cars!

EXACTLY. People with different pocketbooks and different needs will be able to take advantage of the array of services available. Get ready for battery swapping to cost some serious dough... I don't mean five bucks. Don't be surprised if they say there'll be a suggested retail price of twenty...

Awesome! Sometimes one wonders what would cause Elon Musk to go sit in a conference room and answer a bunch of questions like that, televised. (not looking gift horse in mouth) So with less than 24hrs to go until the battery swapping demo, here are my take-aways from that 11-minute interview...

Don't forget, Citizen-T started this thread because he believes battery swapping will happen and this thread is to discuss how it will be accomplished. It appears a lot of folks are now discussing whether or not it is a good idea. Whether or not they think this thread is about a hypothetical...

Congratulations to Citizen-T for keeping the battery-swapping flag flying! As for naysayers like Palpatine, I think someone is about to grab you and toss you down an exhaust shaft! :tongue:

@deonb... I didn't know there was anyone who would pay $70,000 on a car but refuse to pay $5 to swap the battery. Who are these people? Superchargers aren't built with the sole expectation of serving owners of $70,000 cars, you ought to know that. Not only will they serve cheaper (and more...

Here is how I think the economics of battery swapping will work: The battery swapping system will show that it not only takes less time than Supercharging, but less time than filling up an ICE car with gasoline. This will be attractive to anyone, and especially people for whom time is money...

This is great news. Many people will be comparing with Better Place, and saying they failed and Tesla may also fail. I would prefer to think of it this way - the GM EV-1 never had a swappable battery. Swapping batteries is going to be an important part of driving electric cars, and Better...

Now I think about it, he failed to take advantage of the frunk - he could have stuffed even more things into the car! (not to take away from it... a great, original, review)

Very nice!

So I guess there is no point taking a Model S to the Nurburgring to see what sort of time it gets. I just read this and wondered how well it would do. http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/07/mercedes-benz-sls-amg-electric-drive-breaks-nurburgring-record/

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8911.pdf

You are not wrong. I bought some just before the close at $97.95. Here are some factors I believe are at play: 1) there is often a sell-off on Fridays as investors take profits for something else they want to do, anything from putting it into a new stock the following week or buying something...