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Default "Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery thatcharges in five minutes"

Fredxx wrote:
On 20/05/2021 00:21, Steve Walker wrote:


Alternatively, I would love to have standardised battery packs that
could be exchanged at a "petrol" station, reducing stops to minutes.


I do envisage that sort of system. There was a proposal for Tesla along
these lines.

Full charge in 90 seconds:
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/videos/battery-swap-event


If any company could make that system work, youd think it would be Tesla.
Note the date on that video though, 2013. They dropped the idea as
unworkable in practice.

Tim

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