After a simple tire swap, a Model S owner was blindsided by the news of an HV battery replacement, costing $23,000.

20 Dec 2023, 20:24 UTC · By: Mircea Panait // Although a Tesla Model S Plaid-swapped minivan sounds ridiculously fun, bear in mind that Cleetus McFarland's truck is faster still in the quarter mile ...

Much to the chagrin of the governments of California, New York, and the European Union, you just can't get people to stop modifying their cars. Even taking the engines out and replacing them with ...

Tesla is cutting the Gordian Knot of electric vehicles: the time it takes to recharge the batteries. In a Friday blog post, the company said it would begin piloting a battery swap program this week ...

Tesla may have never followed through with the 90-second battery swap scheme it showed off in 2013, but that doesn't mean the company still isn't devising new methods to remove and replace its EV ...

Way back in the summer of 2013, Elon Musk showed off a new piece of tech that could swap the battery of a Tesla Model S in 90 seconds. In one simple move, these battery swap machines made electric ...

As exciting as it sounds to watch a 1000-pound plus battery pack be changed in just over 90 seconds, the operation is fairly uneventful. Just before the live demonstration, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said: ...

Tesla Motors addressed a key concern of electric-car skeptics last week with a demonstration of a battery-swap capability that gets motorists back on the road in 90 seconds—vs. 30 minutes or more for ...

Back in 2014, Tesla Inc TSLA demonstrated battery swapping, a process allowing a Tesla driver to pull in with an empty battery, and then have the battery removed and exchanged for a fully charged unit ...