OT: Electric car batteries

Oops, should have googled first. Someone is doing it properly:

Did you even think to search whether anyone has proposed this? Several manufacturers have considered (and rejected) the idea ...

Breaking news. Troll utters bollocks to elicit a response.

Tim

I didn't search first because I'd never hear of it. Never mentioned on Top gear etc etc, so I assumed it wasn't available.

And see my other post, it hasn't been rejected by Tesla, the company doing electric cars properly.

"Elicit a response" - er... you mean like a question? Like almost every single post made to this group?

And don't they weight 80kg or more? But perhaps all the little old ladies driving electric cars that Mr Wilkinson knows are big beefy birds.

It probably has ...

I was considering that the garage would have a mechanism in place. And it appears Tesla do.

And I think you missed a zero off the weight.

I suspect that flow batteries would make more sense. Pump the used electrolyte out and replace it with fresh. Saves all the packaging issues with swappable battery packs.

I heard of that a while ago, but not since. Are they still considering them?

And what do you mean "packaging issues", can you rewrite that in English? You sound like someone from Human Resources using vague meaningless terms.

and the battery station should be completely wind and solar supplied - one situation in which a truly green solution is/could be viable*.

Is such an arrangement likely to produce enough juice to be useful? If not then what is the point of wind & solar power?

They have:

But they've dropped the idea now as a dead duck.

It's been rejected.

Sorry, but I don't do moron.

Why do you think we can't have a national grid and be green?

That doesn't make sense, they only said they were THINKING of dropping it because of poor take up. But would you rather wait 30 minutes to charge?

En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:

Because he's a troll, and you're feeding his need for attention.

You're the moron who thinks "issues" describes it completely.

Obvious, innit. If you swap the battery you have to arrange for it to be swappable. Which means it has to be packaged robustly so any dimbo can hoick it around the charging station without it getting damaged. And the car then needs a big hole and slidey thing to get the battery into and out of easily.

Much easier just to have a drain tap and filler tap to remove old and add new electrolyte.

Where were you when the brains were being handed out?