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To: LindyBill who wrote (404535)	1/16/2011 3:46:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794146

Lindy, the vehicles just need some simple redesign. <These electrics have a series of batteries in them. Worth about four grand. Swapping them is an all-day job. > Get a Formula 1 team on the job and they'd explain how to design things so that an electric car could pull into the battery swap pits and be back on the road in seconds rather than minutes and the idea of hours would be a joke. Heck, the Formula 1 team would explain that battery swap trucks could cruise the freeways with electric cars pulling alongside and swapping batteries without slowing down. It doesn't make sense to stop simply to swap a battery. Thinking about that a little more, it's probably uneconomic because keeping a large truck rolling would be more expensive than having no truck, and the car just pulls into a swap site for a minute. Some people might prefer to pay a premium price for a non-stop swap. Mqurice