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Small White Car · 10-14-2011, 08:16 AM

So why don't automobile manufacturers work on standardizing battery configurations and power couplings? You pop into a 'filling station' and swap out your battery pack for a fresh charge and down the road you go. You pay for the battery rental not the electricity inside, leave that to the station owners to figure into the price.

There is a lot of wide open out there and quite a bit of it sits in windy sunlight.

Cross country in an electric car with an existing delivery infrastructure (we call them gas stations right now) for a price that may not be as cheap as plugging in at home but certainly quite a bit less than pumping 15 gallons of fuel into your car @ $3.89 a gallon (welcome to L.A. folks) every few hundred miles with about the same convenience.

There I go dreaming again...

blackax · 10-14-2011, 12:20 PM

I don't think we need to change the battery or even charge it in the car. we can drain the liquid electrolyte and replace it with new freshly charge electrolyte. This way a filling station doesnt need to get a shipment of "electrolyte" it can just charge the spent "electrolyte".

Yes battery acid is dangerous but so is gas and we have learned to live with that.

blackax · 10-14-2011, 12:39 PM

The concept is call Flow battery's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/f...ries-0606.html

Vettezuki · 10-14-2011, 01:34 PM

Interesting ideas. There's also some nano-tech evolving to allow for far more rapid recharging. But in ANY of these scenarios, there is a massive grid infrastructure cost. You're talking about orders of magnitude more capacity. Electricity does not grow on trees or come on tankers.

Small White Car · 10-14-2011, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Vettezuki

Interesting ideas. There's also some nano-tech evolving to allow for far more rapid recharging. But in ANY of these scenarios, there is a massive grid infrastructure cost. You're talking about orders of magnitude more capacity. Electricity does not grow on trees or come on tankers.

No but it does blow in the wind and shine down from the sky and I have one other untapped source I'm looking to keep a secret and it isn't pie in the sky tech, as a matter of fact it is quite simple when you think about it but I digress...

I'm also working out a different idea for travel between certain places like L.A. and Vegas but thru way rights would be a nightmare for someone with good intentions and no funding.

Story of my life it seems.