EV Fan
12-29-2014, 05:38 PM
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Electric car battery technology is getting better every year. When combined with incremental improvements in electric propulsion systems and vehicle packaging, we should expect the driving range in future all-electric models to significantly increase. But what about the EVs already on the road? Will these improvements diminish the value of the battery-powered vehicle currently in your driveway?
Enter Tesla Motors, with its announcement last week that for a price (to be determined), owners of the Tesla Roadster all-electric coupe can upgrade the model from a car with a nominal range of 245 miles—to one with close to 400 miles. At face value, the news will only affect about 2,500 cars. That’s the number of Roadsters that Tesla made and sold.
But the deeper significance is the concept of an EV battery upgrade.
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Electric car battery technology is getting better every year. When combined with incremental improvements in electric propulsion systems and vehicle packaging, we should expect the driving range in future all-electric models to significantly increase. But what about the EVs already on the road? Will these improvements diminish the value of the battery-powered vehicle currently in your driveway?
Enter Tesla Motors, with its announcement last week that for a price (to be determined), owners of the Tesla Roadster all-electric coupe can upgrade the model from a car with a nominal range of 245 miles—to one with close to 400 miles. At face value, the news will only affect about 2,500 cars. That’s the number of Roadsters that Tesla made and sold.
But the deeper significance is the concept of an EV battery upgrade.
read more (http://www.plugincars.com/tesla-roadster-30-shows-how-evs-can-be-upgraded-130394.html)
http://www.electricvehiclechat.com//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PluginCars/~4/7vyKwvccRvc
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