Had an interesting conversation with someone from my local SC, discussing how batteries are swapped out at the SC and owners' batteries sent back to Fremont for servicing or diagnostics. I asked how long it took them to swap out batteries, and he said up to 2-3 hours - when I expressed surprise at that, he said that the physical swap-out usually took less than an hour, but that getting the battery firmware and the car to handshake correctly took anywhere from a few minutes to a full hour.
So... here is the speculation part of this posting. Even if they can get the robotics at a battery swap station to reliably exchange batteries in a few minutes, if getting the new battery to talk to your car is unpredictable and could take up to an hour, that's a deal-killer. I wonder if the delay has been an issue of getting the software to work seamlessly rather than the robotics.
So... here is the speculation part of this posting. Even if they can get the robotics at a battery swap station to reliably exchange batteries in a few minutes, if getting the new battery to talk to your car is unpredictable and could take up to an hour, that's a deal-killer. I wonder if the delay has been an issue of getting the software to work seamlessly rather than the robotics.