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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3808)2/14/2014 4:32:35 AM
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Resolving the range issues of electric vehicles by swapping extremely heavy and currently non-standard battery packs and how you gain access to them from vehicles is impractical and the manufacturers will not cooperate on this unless forced by law. Safety issues alone with removing and replacing batteries so frequently is enough reason the idea will never become mainstream - they would all rather be free to innovate in battery location, shape and type and pursue charging technologies. Consumers would be extremely upset if a bad battery pack was swapped into their vehicle and they got stuck buying a new unit. Who would absorb those costs and how would owners of vehicles pay the right price for battery wear/age.

What price would you expect is a reasonable fee for having an entire battery pack removed from a vehicle and replaced by a fully charged unit? $10, $20 - $100? You can barely have tires rotated for less than $25.

Nothing was ever done until somebody imagined it and did it

That "did it" part is the kicker - not every idea is practical.
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