U.S. Gearing Up To Become World's Supplier Of Lithium

Cruise can now drive without driver at night in SF.

I can understand your emotions. Your problem is that you can't.

The famous 129 MW.hr grid storage battery in South Australia

was supplied by Elon Musk and the cells came of his Tesla production line. It uses exactly the same cells as a Tesla car.

Deluded rubbish.

The battery is an expensive item. The process of swapping it for new one should be pretty straight-forward and quick.

Communications are cheap. People witter on about using Wi-Fi to talk to smart chargers, as if we hadn't been using mains wiring to carry high frequency signalling for years. Powerline adaptors have been a consumer product for twenty years now. My wife's computer in her study ran on one pretty much from when we moved back to Australia. A few years ago Microsoft decided that it was an Ethernet link to my computer and thus a security risk , so I had to plug in a satellite Wi-Fi transmitter to keep them happy.

The electronics in the charger are complicated enough that making them bidirectional isn't going to be a big deal

You can make your own guesses about the economics. Better informnd and better qualified people seem to have other ideas.

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Another JEWEL from the Bozo! The battery is an EXPENSIVE ITEM! WOW!! Why don't you grace with MORE pearls of wisdom, like "the Sun rises in the morning AND sets in the evening!!!!"

OH, you ALREADY DID:

"The process of swapping it for new one should be pretty straight-forward and quick."

So is replacing an ENGINE, you DORK!!!!!!

Gnatguy tried to use text-chopping to lie about what I was actually saying. I've snipped most of it.

Replacing an engine is actually a lot more complicated that swapping a battery. The engine is hooked up to the radiator, the gas tank, the drive train, the accelerator pedal and a whole lot of dashboard displays. The battery in an EV is functionally closer to the gas tank in a car with internal combustion engine.

Nothing has to be as carefully aligned as the drive train. Gnatguy clearly hasn't ever had to swap an engine (or a gear box).

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SNIPPERMAN is ACCUSING ME of SNIPPING!!!! WHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, here it is AGAIN!

Another JEWEL from the Bozo! The battery is an EXPENSIVE ITEM! WOW!! Why don't you grace with MORE pearls of wisdom, like "the Sun rises in the morning AND sets in the evening!!!!"

Not really for properly trained technician.

The engine is hooked up to the radiator, the gas tank, the drive train, the accelerator pedal and a whole lot of dashboard displays. The battery in an EV is functionally closer to the gas tank in a car with internal combustion engine.

Hey Bozo, the battery is a structural component and the car has to be DISASSEMBLED to replace it. I doubt that there is a significant difference in the labor to do this vs an ICE, but if there is then PRODUCE THE DATA!!!!

Your f****ng mechanical skills are that of a kindergartner.

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No amount of training make a simple job more difficult than a complicated job.

To some extent. Getting an engine out takes more thorough disassembly. Think about the drive train.

Why bother. It's obvious - not to you, but you are an idiot.

Yours seem to be. Mine are rather more advanced than that. It's been a while since I took the head off my car's engine and ground in a new set of valves, but I was long out of kindergarten by then.