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Originally Posted by Xist
Even if just Teslas swapped batteries amongst themselves. You purchase a Tesla and you have free battery swaps until you hit 150,000 miles. They recondition batteries that do not receive a charge properly.
It would defeat the purpose of LeMans to bring multiple vehicles, right? Would five be enough?  |
You're missing the point that nobody wants a degraded battery, even if it meets minimum specifications. Why get stuck with a battery that has a 250 mile range when your original battery had a 300 mile range?
It's like swapping engines in a car. You wouldn't be cool with an engine that meets spec, but is 5 HP down on power and uses a little oil when yours didn't.
The active cooling, electrical connections, and mounting is complicated enough that swapping within the same model type is no easy task.
That said, if Tesla had some way to supercharge a battery off-vehicle, and could somehow swap batteries quickly, you could probably almost get by with a single spare battery that charges while the car uses the other one.