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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (404509)1/16/2011 3:57:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 794277
 
Yes, there'd be various standard batteries, like there are with regular dry cell batteries - AA 1.5volt and what have you. But there might be Toyota Swap Stops.

Also, there wouldn't need to be one battery on site for each car on the road. Recharge times are a matter of hours rather than days, and most cars would just need a swap every few days or one a day. At 10,000 km per year, and 100 km per charge, that's one swap every three days. With a recharge taking maybe 4 hours that would be 1 battery for 10 cars that use a particular Swap Stop.

A busy site might have 50 per hour x 10 hours = 500 per day. Some electricity supply planning would be needed. So there would need to be something like 200 "on charge" at any one time. And yes that's quite a pile of batteries sitting in the recharge stack, but quite manageable.

Lots of little nuclear power stations might be a good idea with waste heat going to heat local buildings or industrial processes.

Mqurice
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