Tesla makes a demo of a battery swap, gets tens of millions dollars' worth of carbon credits for it. Fails to actually build any swap station, or to show the feature working in consumer cars. Forgets to provide any information on the proverbial swap, but remembers to cash out those carbon credits...
That’s another bit of Tesla magic. Basic math shows the panels can provide maybe one per cent of electricity use, so I hope the stations don’t have lights.
That video is the ONLY occasion the feature has been “demonstrated”. I use quotes because even then nobody was allowed near the cars, either before or after the swap.
Tesla has never shown it in a consumer car. Among people in the Tesla forum, absolutely nobody has claimed that his battery change took minutes - it’s always hours.
Then there is, you know, circumstantial evidence..... Such as the total lack of news about swap stations ONE YEAR after they started to get money off this feature.
Just try to find a Tesla statement about swaps that isn’t six months old.
Of course batteries can be CHANGED, but it takes hours. The word swap implies FAST, and indeed Tesla advertised 90 seconds! That’s why I described the owner’s experience as a” swap”.... I don’t know you but when I think of things swapping I don’t expect three hours.
Tesla got $55 million for a demo - nothing heard since then.
Tesla gets $55M in carbon credits because of their car's ability to do a battery swap.....then they fail to build a single swap station. Not that it matters, the car cannot do it anyway.
If allowed to continue, the scam will get into the hundreds of millions.