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Q: How will drivers recharge the battery pack in the Model S?
A: You'll head to a battery-swap station, drive your car onto rails that lock your car into position like at a car wash, and a customized forklift device will grab the pack from beneath the car, pull it out, and replace it with another pack. It'll take roughly five minutes -- less time than filling your gas tank. For a high-speed recharge, the car will also have onboard chargers that let you plug into any wall socket and charge up in 45 minutes.
I sure hope they have or will have a deal with Project Better Place.
Two incompatible systems of battery swapping would suck.
The biggest downside to battery-swap idea is "one battery size fits all".
I doub't though Renault will use same batteries (pack dimension) as Tesla.
We looked closely at developing a hybrid, but we decided it's a red herring. If you stay purely electric or purely gasoline, you're going to make a better car. As soon as you try to split the difference, you have something that's neither fish nor fowl. A Prius is a weak gasoline car with a little bit of electric charge. And once you've used up the electric charge, you have an underpowered gasoline engine or a weak electric car.
Yes it is curious that Elon sees hybrids as a red herring, but nothing wrong with battery swapping.
Is energy density not going to increase quickly enough for American road trips?
What is a long trip anyway?But you are correct in both are bridge solutions to a day when battery capacity is large enough for long trips.