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Closeup of Tesla Battery Swap (HD)

sbknapps0 HN recommenders · 2013–2020
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Short HD closeup of a Tesla Model S battery swap, showing the pack lowered out and another pushed into place.

Linked as visual evidence that the Model S supported battery swapping whenever swap stations come up.

Cars, EVs & motorcyclesRenewables, batteries & storage

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5 comments from Hacker News

@SCdF2013 · in “Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System”

It's unfortunate the video quality is so poor. Surely this should be a marketing boon for Tesla. You'd think they'd put more effort in. Edit: This is better quality: [VIDEO] Edit2: An even better video: [LINK] (thnx jlgreco)

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@icebraining2016 · in “Tesla will not be able to scale its manufacturing capacity”

They did a live demo: [LINK] Here's a closeup video where you can see the battery pack being lowered and another being pushed into place: [VIDEO]

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@martin_bech2017 · in “Big oil will die when it becomes cheaper to hail an electric self-driving car”

Tesla batteries can be swaped. They have a video showing it, and a single station doing it, but there is no need for it atm. Ive been driving my Model S for 2+ years now, and the charging options are plenty. Link to video of battery swap [VIDEO]

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@reportingsjr2020 · in “A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain”

This has been tried, in fact the original Tesla Model s had a swappable batteries[1], but it has never worked for a variety of reasons. [1]: [VIDEO]

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@debian32020 · in “Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging”

Battery swap station: [VIDEO] I'm not sure why this is a not reality yet. When this happens, I will certainly not be the one refuelling my car at -30C in the winter, I will be seated in my electric car waiting for the swap to complete.

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