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Also like Israel, the Danish government will be offering tax breaks on the vehicles. According to Agassi, the average price of a car in Denmark is $60,000 (about €38,000), while the tax break could price an electric car as low as $20,000 there. So the Project Better Place formula for success so far seems to be to get the attention of a power company to provide the network, and secure the tax breaks that will make electric vehicles a compelling proposition compared to petrol. This may not play so well in countries that don’t already tax motor vehicles heavily, and/or that have a substantial auto manufacturing industry.
The Denmark infrastructure will consist of approximately 500,000 charging spots and 150 battery swap stations, allowing vehicles to be charged overnight, and the swap stations to be used as a gas station equivalent for longer journeys. Agassi sees it as vital that using an electric vehicle is at least as convenient as using a petrol driven one, so the battery swap should take no longer than it would to fill a tank of petrol – but he claims 20 seconds is do-able.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2…..agassi_ev/
My bold So $20,000 for an electric car plus by swapping the batteries something the Volt can’t do Obama should talk to GM about that.
In the same amount of time it takes to fill up a car tank rather than charging the car overnight.
I wish KO would cover that story!
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2…..agassi_ev/
Here is the link
Thanks TCU.
It’s important to understand all the supply chain issues and your post does that.
It’s also important to be able to lock the hood, so thieves can’t steal the battery.
I think a battery big enough to power a car will weigh a few hundred pounds still that won’t stop a professional thief with a portable engine hoist.
You’re assuming a one piece battery. More likely an electric car battery would consist of several cartridge style batteries for easy replacement.
True but that is the only way it can work in their own chosen time frame.
Sorry I’m late replying just got home from my sisters wedding.
I’ve been postulating for about 5 years that batteries should be cartridges for swap so there’s no running out of fuel issue, you can swap at any gas station once the infrastructure is set up
I would also speculate both car and station computers should be able to tell how many cycles are left in the battery so depreciation can be figured into the cost of a charged cartridge
The first idea they seem to have done. I wonder about the second idea still its a good one.
that’s the way I envision the technology as well, this way any engine can use whatever profile the designers like, they can have more weight with added storage facility or less weight for better acceleration, the can run in series for added horsepower, parallel for added torque, the engine management system can alternate between modes for whatever the driver needs at that moment
modular cartridges could be configured in any shape you want, say set up something like a dodecagon and plugable from all sides, I’m figuring this out as I write so I’m sure there are even better ideas
The batteries could all be on a sliding tray that rolls out of the car when it needs to be changed the wires connecting the batteries could all be hooked up in such a way that they all release from the batteries at the same time this might address Fenestrate @^’s concerns.
Also the lower the car batteries are placed to the ground and the middle of the car the better the handling no more adding a bag of rock salt to the back of your light truck or Camero to prevent it from fishtailing in the snow.