Charging scheme for "electric gas station"?

[JosephKK]

That is the deepest argument thus far.


At least you understand that rechargeable batteries must be
charged... But of course, batteries do not have to be owned in
order to be used and charged.



Yes, businesses have financial and overhead costs... Uhg.


Either you have been brainwashed, or you are just too old to think
outside of the box.

And how much does the battery weigh? Way more than 200 pounds (a huge
petrochemical fuel load [50 gallons]) for sure.

 

[JosephKK]

Rich Grise <richgr... example.net> wrote:

Admittedly, [exchanging battery packs has] some gotchas - like,
how many different mounting schemes will there be for a
half-ton battery rack? The exchange stations' inventory would
cost a king's ransom, and there's schlepping them (the battery
packs) around from the rack to the car, and from the car to the
charger, and from the charger to inventory, that sort of thing.

Just imagine when one of them takes a dive from the fork truck.

The idea of a 500 pound battery rack and a fork truck sounds silly
to me. Even if the battery pack were that heavy, a reliable
removal/replacement system would be easy enough to devise.

It would be fun enough to have it tip over and weld to the forks
before exploding itself,

Possible, with an old geezer at the wheel...

but it would be just as interesting to have it fall all the way
to the ground,

Have you ever designed and built anything mechanical, Timmy? Was
the task extremely difficult for you?

and through a combination of breaking open and shorting out,
release all of its energy in a nicely short time period.

But in the real world... Lithium ion battery-powered devices are
EXTREMELY commonplace and their use is widespread.

Sure for a few watt hours to a few dozen per instance. Not for
thousands of watt hours each unit.

In contrast, if this same procedure were employed for
transporting fuel

There is no need, Timmy.

The central reason batteries will never work, of course,

If you are so sure, Timmy, then no doubt you can provide pointers
to opinions from scientists in that field who agree with you?

... if the [lithium ion] battery fails, it's guaranteed to fail
spectacularly.

But in the real world... Lithium ion battery-powered devices are
EXTREMELY commonplace and widespread. The technology is
manageable. And of course, there are potentially better methods
for handling current technology and potentially better energy
storage devices on the way.

At a few watt hours at a time.

And you never heard of the fires aboard cargo planes due to lithium
batteries? I thought not.

Apparently the subject is interesting enough for you all to troll
me for answers...

You have no answers. You cannot even think straight. Learn to do
appropriate energy calculations.