07-28-2013, 11:35 PM
Grieve Wrote:You mean like a 90s battery swap that is faster than filling up your car?That's not really a "wow" technology so much as a workaround for the lack of a wow technology. They take your spent battery out and put in a fully charged one. Presumably the drained one gets stuck on a shelf somewhere to charge. Not that exciting because it's going to take a ton of money to create the infrastructure to support that.
I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it. Technically if your city has a charging station I guess you're considered supported but how far out of your way are you going to have to go to get that? It'll be a long time before every service station has one of these. Or even every 10th service station. I can imagine them saying that Rockville is covered but there's only 1 station and it's at White Flint mall. Going 20 minutes out of your way every day to get a battery swap is gonna get old fast.
The real hope would probably be for a major government incentive program to cover a lot of the infrastructure costs, but at $17 trillion in debt, I doubt we'll see a successful push for that kind of spending in the next 30 years either.
I also just don't think an upstart car company is going to trump what corporations like Toyota (or Yamaha for that matter) can do.