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drive-in batteries
EC stops at station. Old batteries drive out. New batteries drive in. Continue on your way. | |
[Edited due to [MaxB]'s anno] Each battery is a type of
small car. Each battery connects to
the
next and relays the information on. A battery that is
empty
will move aside to allow the other batteries to
participate in running the electric vehicle that hosts
them.
When at station the
empty batteries pull out and new
full
ones drive into the battery storage space. No special
station needed , just a storage and charging site. You
slowly pay back for the batteries simply by using them,
as
you pay for the power. Since nighttime off peak charge
can
be as low as 20 times the cost of gasoline (and less) you
will get your revenue back pretty quickly.
For trucks use carsize battery units. For cars use
matchbox
type batteries.
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Battery swapping stations for electric cars are baked, sorry. |
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I think the idea here is that the entire car is
swapped. (//Each battery is a type of car.//) |
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However, this would be a nuisance since (a) you'd
have to move your luggage, children, CDs, kidnap
victims etc between cars each time and (b) you'd
have no choice over what type of car you drove. |
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I don't know why it's not taken even further, and swap the people too. It seems crazy when you look at a motorway, there are hundreds of people zooming eastbound and hundreds more zooming westbound. If everyone was more agreeable, the people in the east could stay there and do the things that the eastbound people are heading for; those eastbound people could stay in the west and do the things the westbound people were intending to. It would save a lot of zooming around. |
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Nah, it's cheaper to have the nice people in India do those
things instead. |
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The title you intended is 'Drive-In Batteries'. The hyphen is
a strange mistress, no? |
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Does the Good Fairy Jenny know that you keep strange mistresses? |
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Sorry. Meanwhile just to re-iterate. In the intended-idea,
the batteries drive into a "bridge" that leads to the
storage aria (Edit: meant 'area') in the car. Each battery
is an autonomous
"robot" except without any expensive robot legs and
walking control hardware and software. Instead it only
has a simple RC car like interface that is controlled either
inside battery or centrally at refill station. This is not
baked at all. It relies on many very small batteries,
"cooperating" with each other. |
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Makes the station easier to implement, and a universal
car "battery tank" implementation, independent of any
special "full battery replacement unit" - a little like using
liquid fuel. |
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// Does the Good Fairy Jenny know // |
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That's only if the battery is fully opera-tional ... |
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// Does the Good Fairy Jenny know that you keep strange
mistresses? // |
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She does. My actual mistress is named Jessica; while the
wife is asleep, Jessica and I share glass after glass of Kijafa
while I hunch over her, feverishly groping at her keyboard
and gazing into her deeply hypnotic 19" HILED display. |
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changed to "like {a small} car" |
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added "to participate {in running the electric vehicle that
hosts them}" |
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