First of all, "stupid" is not fitting word for this list Second; if an idea doesn't "die" there must be a reason ie Electric cars... Perhaps battery swapping doesn't work for public use, but all electric swappable-battery trucks ran until the 1960's just fine. In a fleet or industrial application swapping makes sense. I always like Clare Bell ev light rail concept, swapping the packs at each end in the days of lead -acid..with lithium the swappling could be at one end or the route 3x as long.there are many "apps" out there that can use different EV solutions.Please stay open-minded also.. the most important thing for a bicyclist is to stay upright - sometimes that means pushing your presence in to auto drivers conscience I don't shop where I can't charge. I also think that there are a number of different possible business models for how a swap might work, including some that we haven't thought of yet.
>> Fundamentally the problem is economics: in a car you have a $100 tank >> that you're filling up with $50 of fuel. But in an EV, you have a $40,000 >> pack that you're filling up with $5 of fuel. > > That's...that's an excellent observation that puts it in a perspective I've > never thought about before. > 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. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150318/b88ec0de/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)
