Closeup of Tesla Battery Swap (HD)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked as visual evidence that the Model S supported battery swapping whenever swap stations come up.
What it is
Short HD closeup of a Tesla Model S battery swap, showing the pack lowered out and another pushed into place.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites SCdF · 2013-06 · on “Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System”
It's unfortunate the video quality is so poor. Surely this should be a marketing boon for Tesla. You'd think they'd put more effort in. Edit: This is better quality: [this video] Edit2: An even better video: [LINK] (thnx jlgreco)
Cites icebraining · 2016-05 · on “Tesla will not be able to scale its manufacturing capacity”
They did a live demo: [LINK] Here's a closeup video where you can see the battery pack being lowered and another being pushed into place: [this video]
Cites martin_bech · 2017-07 · on “Big oil will die when it becomes cheaper to hail an electric self-driving car”
Tesla batteries can be swaped. They have a video showing it, and a single station doing it, but there is no need for it atm. Ive been driving my Model S for 2+ years now, and the charging options are plenty. Link to video of battery swap [this video]
Cites reportingsjr · 2020-01 · on “A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain”
This has been tried, in fact the original Tesla Model s had a swappable batteries[1], but it has never worked for a variety of reasons. [1]: [this video]
Cites debian3 · 2020-06 · on “Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging”
Battery swap station: [this video] I'm not sure why this is a not reality yet. When this happens, I will certainly not be the one refuelling my car at -30C in the winter, I will be seated in my electric car waiting for the swap to complete.