August 28, 2010

Tokyo taxis test battery swapping for electric vehicles

Filed under: Climate-Change,Energy-Issues,Research — malamahonua @ 4:30 am

59 Seconds Average Swapping Time for batteries:
Better Place, in collaboration with the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Nihon Kotsu Co., Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, has been doing real-world testing of a battery-swapping station in Tokyo. The trial, which started last April and has just been extended until November, aims to determine the “feasibility of battery switch as means for taxis to have instant, zero emission, range extension.”
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