On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Ben Goren via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:44 PM, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > However, fork lift batteries cost many thousands of dollars. And they > weigh many times more than an EV pack. And yet they *do* routinely swap > them anyway. > > Yes and no. > > The owners of the forklifts and the batteries swap the batteries in and > out the same way you yourself might swap the batteries on your cordless > drill. > > But what the owners of the forklifts _aren't_ doing is swapping batteries > with some other company that charges them. That's the part that doesn't > make economic sense. Right. With a forklift, you own 2 or 3 batteries, and you do the swap. The only economic change is that the battery becomes slightly more valuable as you charge it, and then less valuable as you use it (and depreciate it). Your total economic investment isn't changing by several thousand dollars up or down when you swap, and there's no opportunity for you to ditch your pack onto some other poor guy because you fried it that time when you left the forklift lights on all night. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150317/fc25e9b9/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
