[WatchungEagle]

The solution is obvious. Batteries need to be switched out, not permanent batteries that are charged in the vehicle. That should have been the design from the beginning. Someday, there will be viable electric cars and that’s how they will work.

[Red Badger]

How about inductive wireless connections to under the road conductors?...............

[ctdonath2]

Tesla tried the “switch batteries” design. Nobody wanted it. Probably because nobody wants to swap $20,000 components of unknown (certified, but still unknown) history.

[DAC21]

“The solution is obvious. Batteries need to be switched out, not permanent batteries that are charged in the vehicle. That should have been the design from the beginning. Someday, there will be viable electric cars and that’s how they will work”

Someone takes it in the shorts, battery’s lose efficiency. Example: Brand new Tesla owner with a battery at 99% pulls into the battery change out station and give up his one month old battery for a three year old battery running at 89%. And so on and so forth. In that scenario only Tesla could take on the associated costs of that system. Of course it gets passed on to the Buyer of an already too expensive car.

BTW when does Trump cut off the Fed. Subsidizes? Time to stand on their own two feet.

[TexasGator]

"The solution is obvious. Batteries need to be switched out, not permanent batteries that are charged in the vehicle PHONES. That should have been the design from the beginning. Someday, there will be viable electric cars PHONES and that’s how they will work."