Battery Swap Station for Electric Cars Unveiled (Hebrew Subtitles)
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Uploaded by NTDTVIL on May 20, 2009
The endurance of electric cars is soon to receive a timely boost.
One California company unveiled a solution — a prototype energy station that swaps electric vehicles' empty batteries for fully charged ones.
The Better Place Company hopes such networks would replace existing conventional gas stations sometime in the near future.
[Yoav Heichal, Chief Engineer, Better Place]:
"A switch station is actually a gas station for electric vehicles. But it's clean because you're using the energy from solar panels or a wind turbine. So you get a very clean solution because the energy is clean and the vehicle doesn't create any emission, so it's very friendly for the environment."
The demonstration in Yokohama Japan used a Nissan electric car to highlight the automated process.
The company says the system allows an electric vehicle to travel theoretically "unlimited distances" if it keeps swapping batteries.
Much like with mobile phone contracts, customers simply choose the distance they want to travel. They subscribe to various monthly plans tailored to best suit their driving needs. Under the current business plan, the batteries will belong to the switching stations, not to the individual car owners.
Potential markets include Israel, Denmark, the U.S. West Coast, Australia, Japan and the Canadian city of Ontario.
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Thats awesome. Its about time we started using renwable energy but I must admit...I am gonna find it hard giving up my petrol powered car. may just keep it for nostalgia and weekend driving!
RibNSpicY 11 months ago
@planetdarwin robots are faster, cheaper and more reliable than humans.
addictedtopiano 1 year ago
@planetdarwin Seems like overkill for computers to do lots of other things too. Oh wait, no it doesn't, it's called PROGRESS.
jeffsandychelsea 1 year ago
Why does the switching station have to be this complicated machine? Why not just have a drive-in bay where an actual human task force replaces it.... IN OUT BOOM DONE.. Seems like overkill to have freakin' robots doing it.
planetdarwin 1 year ago