You can already do this (in China, which presently bears the largest EV market):
(Also recently available in Norway, w/ expansion soon™)
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Report: Apple Developing Apple Car Autopilot Function With South Korean Partner
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You can already do this (in China, which presently bears the largest EV market):
(Also recently available in Norway, w/ expansion soon™)
Removable battery pack should be tamper proof, drop safely & light weight and can be charge at home or replace quickly at the station if one see very low battery power.
Since we all live in very dynamic world, people need to move all the time no time to waste.
Amazon flex or Uber drivers will not like to wait for 30 mins to charge up.
1 - Unproven tech. Tesla started with a Lotus shell bolted to a frame of batteries. Incremental development over time. Apple will have to leap to current EV and semi-autonomous tech to be competitive.
2 - Lack of vertical integration means you're buying an Apple branded car, not a car manufactured by Apple.
3 - Price. Apple sells at a premium and the EV market is trending towards driving consumer cost down.
4 - Lack of supporting infrastructure.
5 - Possible reliance on Apple's ecosystem, which may be appealing for gadgets but not a $40-80k car.
The list goes on. Apple isn't well positioned to succeed in the EV market.
I like this idea, but considering Tesla battery ’packs’ weigh between 700-1000lbs you’re probably going to need to hit the gym hard before you (or anyone) will be doing any swapping. ? (or wait at least a decade for batteries to slim down)
It's even less funny when you realize cars already have a notch. Lots of cars have them where the rear view mirror is and it's for the same purpose, they put the cameras there.
Me when Siri accidentally hears something on the radio: Siri! Belay that order!
How much power/energy do you think it takes to heat or cool a car cabin?
That is ideal for you. You only need external charging stations when on a road trip. Regular charging happens overnight wherever you park.
HA! Just turn the trash can Mac Pro on its side.
I’m waiting for the electric Back To The Future car.
So many Apple News blogs are hiring absolutely awful designers to mock up renders and they're so bad.
This car is so fugly.
This car is so fugly.
It is difficult question. I do not have specific technical specification for the battery
All I know lots of things eat up battery resource such as speed, break, internal computer, screen, screen dashboard, air condition, alarm system, GPS tracking, 5G network and many many other things as well…
If all devices contain A+++ or even better and I’m sure it will be greatly improvements.
Here in Denmark we already have driverless cars with autopilot function, and I must say they are excellent. We call them Metro.
Battery size does matter, but honestly the AC is most EV's use 1-3 kW of power, while heating varies from 1-7 kW (I haven't seen the max/min draw for the heat pump models). As far as I know Tesla's have the thirstiest computer setup with drawing up to 500 watts. Past that you are looking at something like 12-15 kW to maintain 60mph on the highway, with higher speeds using even more power (yay air resistance).
If there's a bright center to the country, I'm in the town that it's farthest from.
No, actually it's not.
The reson for the 'notch' you refer to, in cars, are to block sunlight streaming through and blinding someone using the rear view mirror. I asked an engineer in Detroit why they went to that in so many cars. I have had many experiences where the sun is blazing down through that area, and really appreciate that sunshade effect so much. Because what good would that shading be for a camera? A camera can't see through it. It likely also makes the windshield warmer too. *shrug*
Some cars do put the cameras there though. My last three cars did it like this. I'm not saying it's exactly the same purpose as on an LCD notch, obviously it's not.
Some cars do put the cameras there though. My last three cars did it like this. I'm not saying it's exactly the same purpose as on an LCD notch, obviously it's not.
Sure... I had a car with 'auto wipers' (that scared the hell out of me the first time they ever worked) and the sensor was in a small barely discernible hole in that huge blacked out area. *shrug* Auto-wipers... Yeah, a good idea I suppose. Auto-wash sounds more usable?
The Metro is not a car, it is a train that runs on rails, it is correct that it does not have driver.
Are you aware how big EV battery packs are, and where they're located?
You'd need a forklift and a mechanic bay.
Yeah, over on Ars, there's a discussion about battery swapping going on. Some of the things they identified that you'd need to run a battery swapping station:
Forklift and mechanic bay or some kind of customized hardware to handle half ton packs safely.
Dedicated personnel to handle operations, like mechanics but also people to handle the paperwork for your leasing of a $10k battery.
Dedicated warehouse with multiple $10k battery packs, into the 6 or 7 figure range of battery pack inventory.
Workflow to handle transporting battery packs around different stations and to handle charging them.
Not to mention the technical challenges. Battery packs are actively heated and cooled so swapping will need to handle electrical cabling and also coolant lines.
Battery swapping is one of those things that seem ingenious at first, but end up looking more like solar roadways.
