Tuesday February 06th 2007, 1:39 pm
Filed under: automobile
This is an interesting concept for unlimited purely electric powered vehicle range by swapping the battery at battery exchange stations. The stations would own the batteries, so the cost of electric powered vehicles would be less, and concern for the cost of replacing expensive batteries when their life is up is mitigated. Be sure to watch until 1:05 for a 3d animation of how it works.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
This is indeed an interesting concept, and good luck to them.
It certainly addresses the ‘charge time’ negative that applies to such vehicle options. And, standing ready for electrical engineers to correct me, there may also be some benefits with the energy loss in charging by not requiring a myriad, not-so-efficient domestic points both for charging and transfer of electrical energy. However….
I wish people would not label electric cars as non-polluting, as the exhaust pipe is just in another place, unless we are talking nuclear, which has its on set of issues.
Plus, on the day the EU fudge on vehicle emissions due to ‘lobbying’ (what is that? We know where your kids go to school, or what?) by major manufacturers, I’d have to say we’ll need to wait a while before they can be made to agree, with the cooperation of governments and utility/station providers, on what battery, where it goes, how it comes in and out in a standard way, how safe, who pays…..
But we can dream:)