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There are many words I'd use to describe an auto-shop. Clean is not among them.
A good shop is clean. Not hospital room clean, not eat-off-the-floor clean, but clean. Floors swept and rinsed, fluids captured in drain pains, etc.
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Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric. The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system. Smug Frenchman
It's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
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Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric. The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system. Smug Frenchman
It's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
Or maybe more interesting but historical "ale gallon" and "wine gallon".
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At 10 gallons per minute, that's still just 2 minutes pumping time. (23 gallons) Edit: I checked again, he pumps for 2.5 minutes and gets exactly 23 gallons. So I guess the pump isn't as fast as Elon says on stage. But it still surprised me because, well, that's about twice as long as what I'm used to :)
Pumps vary dramatically in speed. My car has a 15.8 gallon tank, and it can easily take a couple of minutes to fill up (in Virginia).
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The cost is fine, about what it costs to fill a gas tank, give or take. But what about this: " Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim their original battery on their return trip or pay the difference in cost for the new pack. " That seems... inconvenient.
Ow. You should be leasing the battery pack from Tesla, and then you swap one pack you are leasing from Tesla with another pack you are leasing from Tesla, so there is no need to worry about what happens when you swap a $8000 battery with a $10,000 battery. (Are the Model S batteries even that cheap?)
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At 10 gallons per minute, that's still just 2 minutes pumping time. (23 gallons) Edit: I checked again, he pumps for 2.5 minutes and gets exactly 23 gallons. So I guess the pump isn't as fast as Elon says on stage. But it still surprised me because, well, that's about twice as long as what I'm used to :)
As Musk points out, this is the fastest pump they could find in their area. Pumps vary tremendously in speed. Actually I'm curious about why the same pumps are sometimes fast, and sometimes very slow. Anybody know? Does tank level really matter that much?
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As Musk points out, this is the fastest pump they could find in their area. Pumps vary tremendously in speed. Actually I'm curious about why the same pumps are sometimes fast, and sometimes very slow. Anybody know? Does tank level really matter that much?
Haha, well if Musk says so it must be true!
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The cost is fine, about what it costs to fill a gas tank, give or take. But what about this: " Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim their original battery on their return trip or pay the difference in cost for the new pack. " That seems... inconvenient.
Oooh... that's not good. I envisioned it as an insurance-like system: you pay for battery swaps, which cost X amount, which goes toward the collective maintenance of all the batteries in the whole system. Thus you don't have to worry about which battery is yours, or the health of your battery, or anything about the battery anymore. That simplicity alone makes it worth the price of admission. If they're worried about…
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A good shop is clean. Not hospital room clean, not eat-off-the-floor clean, but clean. Floors swept and rinsed, fluids captured in drain pains, etc.
This changing station could well be inside such a tidy and enclosed area at the Tesla Station.