Battery exchange station Tesla, and if it worked?
Tesla began his battery exchange test program. The first station is commissioned in California for a few selected users. Refills will be very expensive but the affluent Tesla could follow.
Located Haris Ranch in California, the first Tesla battery exchange station will enter service in the course of this week. This, halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, is used to link these large towns, located 600 km without wasting time with a refill. This station will automatically replace the empty battery with a Tesla S with a full battery in three minutes is the time to a full-on heat car.
And if it worked?
Tesla said that the owners of Tesla S selected must book in advance full battery and its cost will be lower “than that of a tank of gas on a comparable sedan.” So it is far from cheap electricity (full free on Tesla Supercharger) because you have to pay the cost of these stations will have multiple batteries in advance. But customer Tesla, easy and ready to hand the purse for a little more comfort, the economic equation can hold.
Tesla, however, from more conservative than Better Place, which had tried to develop a similar system on a large network, with the most popular car.
But all the obstacles are not removed. It will be interesting to see how Tesla’s customers will welcome the idea of receiving a potentially less powerful battery than abandon these stations.
