It appears so. They have small tanks you swap out with your car. So you run low, go to a store and buy a new tank, and have the old one refilled at the station for someone else. If it can be done in under ten minutes, and be cheap enough not to care, then it beats electric.
That's also what they should have done with the batteries in Teslas. In fact they floated it as a proposal at one point but scrapped the idea. Not sure why. (I mean, it's "hard" to do yeah, but doesn't mean it's not worth doing...)
I would imagine weight. Battery packs are fucking heavy. Tesla is planning to use structural battery packs which effectively replaces part of the frame itself with batteries. Swappable batteries would be the opposite where it would require more weight than a nonstructural battery pack.
Plus imagine the infrastructure needed. You'd need to build service stations with magazines of 1000 pound batteries and robots that can remove and install them built into the ground.
And even if you bought the car you'd be leasing the battery otherwise you'd drive a brand new battery off the lot and next time you need a swap your brand new battery is replaced with an old battery which would suck donkey balls.
Good points, especially the last one I bet that's the biggest reason for not going that route. Right now buying an electric car is basically buying an electric battery with wheels attached. To make it palatable the company would have had to finance everyone's batteries.
Unlikely. NASA can't even figure that out with their SLS rocket and they have actual rocket scientists working on the problem. It is a problem inherent to working with hydrogen as a fuel.
Automobile hydrogen tanks are a much easier problem than rocket tanks because weight isn't as much of an issue. Hydrogen tanks are heavy. The Nexo is 400 lbs heavier than the similarly sized Tucson (although that's still like 600 lbs lighter than the similarly sized Ioniq).
It appears so. They have small tanks you swap out with your car. So you run low, go to a store and buy a new tank, and have the old one refilled at the station for someone else. If it can be done in under ten minutes, and be cheap enough not to care, then it beats electric.
That's also what they should have done with the batteries in Teslas. In fact they floated it as a proposal at one point but scrapped the idea. Not sure why. (I mean, it's "hard" to do yeah, but doesn't mean it's not worth doing...)
I would imagine weight. Battery packs are fucking heavy. Tesla is planning to use structural battery packs which effectively replaces part of the frame itself with batteries. Swappable batteries would be the opposite where it would require more weight than a nonstructural battery pack.
Plus imagine the infrastructure needed. You'd need to build service stations with magazines of 1000 pound batteries and robots that can remove and install them built into the ground.
And even if you bought the car you'd be leasing the battery otherwise you'd drive a brand new battery off the lot and next time you need a swap your brand new battery is replaced with an old battery which would suck donkey balls.
Good points, especially the last one I bet that's the biggest reason for not going that route. Right now buying an electric car is basically buying an electric battery with wheels attached. To make it palatable the company would have had to finance everyone's batteries.
Unlikely. NASA can't even figure that out with their SLS rocket and they have actual rocket scientists working on the problem. It is a problem inherent to working with hydrogen as a fuel.
Automobile hydrogen tanks are a much easier problem than rocket tanks because weight isn't as much of an issue. Hydrogen tanks are heavy. The Nexo is 400 lbs heavier than the similarly sized Tucson (although that's still like 600 lbs lighter than the similarly sized Ioniq).
They already solved that issue. Carbon tank that can contain about 5-6 kilo of hydrogen. This is good for 600-700 km of range