Comment on A robot just swapped my electric car's battery

• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure I agree. Lots of EVs have a 250+ mile range. I’d need a 30 minute break after driving that kind of distance.

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wife thinks I’m insane, but my whole family is built where we would drive 10+ hours (710miles~) a couple times a year with only 1 stop at mile like 500 for fuel and a snack. Otherwise we’d just keep going. Some people don’t need a break for a LOOOONNNNGGGG time when driving. Of my friend group (20th people) on road trips only 2/3 need stops every so often. Even my wife has adjusted to my driving nature.

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    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d be really interested to see the results of response time testing on drives that long. You might be highly anomalous but most people begin to suffer significant attention and reaction penalties after around an hour that get steadily worse.

      I know that when I try do multitask testing (a significant part of driving) after 2 hours of continuous driving my results are like 50% of freshly rested. I’d be surprised if you were anywhere capable of navigating an emergency reliably after 4 hours.

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      • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        🤔 most of us in my family LOVE driving. Usually when we even needed to think/decompress or just have fun we would hop in a car and just drive. So I’m definitely more in a minority on that front. I suspect we’re just “drivers” compared to others. I just think more people can go more than 250 miles without stopping. It probably also helps that 3 of 4 of us have some level of adhd (medical diag). I think for us driving gives our monkey brain something to do. Like meditation, but worse for the environment. 😅

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  • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol I just drove 14 hours one way for thxgiving. Waiting 30+ min every 250 miles is a deal breaker… I can gas and piss in less than ten min once every 400 miles. You’d add like 5 hours to that drive at least. Just waiting for charges.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, you just drove, 800 miles in one day? Youre an extreme outlier, seeing as most people drive around 40.

      Assumeing 3 stops, you already waited around 30 min on that trip, but youre saying 90 makes it impossible for you? That extra 1hr makes your 14hr one way trip untenable when you do it once a year? That 15 is the dealbreaker over a 14?

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People don’t want to hear stuff like that but it is a real disadvantage.

      And I own an EV.

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• Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know why you’d trust a giant battery, absolutely vital to the operation of your car, to some random 3rd party service. To be arbitrarily replaced. And need to rely on it for X miles. Particularly when your use case where you’d even want a quick swap is traveling outside a regular charges’ range.

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  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only in this instance it’s not a third party, it’s the car manufacturer. It’s just like Tesla and their super chargers. Only these guys are replacing the battery instead of charging it.

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    • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh. It’s literally a 3rd party company that’s currently doing a single manufacturer atm, with explicitly (detailed in the video) plans to expand to other manufacturers.

      For how much people seem to know about catalytic converter theft, they seem eager to have an easily removed battery. And full trust in no bad actors finding a way to exploit these stations for the metals in the batteries.

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    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does the car warranty extend to cover the replacement battery just as if it was the original battery? Given an EV battery is a pretty significant part of the cost of the entire vehicle I wouldn’t trust a swapped battery unless the manufacturer made it very clear that they would treat it as if it was the original battery if any issues arose with it. The last thing I would want is to have to fight with Tesla or whoever if the replacement battery fails and they claim it’s not covered by their warranty.

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      • fristislurper@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you watched the video, you would know you don’t actually own the battery but lease it from the manufaturer.

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      • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All I did was watch a video at way to late at night.

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