Tesla Secures Patent For Battery Swap Technology
Tesla has been granted a patent for a quick-swap Electric Energy Storage System (EESS), a new patent reveals.
Tesla has been granted a patent for a quick-swap Electric Energy Storage System (EESS), a new patent reveals.
By Mira Inbar @Mirainbar When Tesla announced last year that it was going to build battery swapping stations, many journalists and industry insiders harkened back to the legacy of Better Place, the Israeli startup that built its business model around battery swapping stations. Better Place lost $812 million when it … [continued]
Don’t go running for the medicine cabinet just yet when your car runs out of gas, but a research team at the University of Delaware is working on a low cost, high efficiency carbon capture system that uses an active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. … [continued]
I think we just lucked out. A reader has passed along a bunch of videos from the Tesla Model S battery swap demo and the follow-up Q&A session with Elon Musk. There are a lot of interesting answers in the Q&A videos that I haven’t seen or heard elsewhere (and … [continued]
Update June 22: See 17 videos of the battery swap and follow-up Q&A with Elon Musk here. Original Post: You thought battery swapping was over, didn’t you? But then along came Tesla with another big announcement…. Tesla’s last big announcement following months of good news and press conferences was the announcement … [continued]
Tesla just about 14 hours ago announced via email to reporters that it would be performing a live battery pack swap demo tomorrow (Thursday, June 20) at 8:00pm (doors opening at 7:30pm) at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. Actually, as with many things Tesla, Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk … [continued]