These towers above,left,which permit the batteries to flow through them while being recharged are relatively simpler and smaller than those shown above for highway stations including vans and semis side loading methods also.(see index3a.html) In the perspective view above the EV car driver inserts a credit card or cash into a collector,then drives onto a turntable, butts against the tower ,the front battery is extracted to the 2nd stack at the rear and which once checked for possible rechargeability and remaining energy which is credited to user. (another way to pay for the energy is to bill customers monthly for mileage driven -- to be elaborated on later)the battery is then simultaneously raised one level while the front stack is lowered proportionately,then permitting also a transfer at the top of the stack from rear to front as well as a new insertion at the bottom into the front of the vehicle. The car is then rotated 180 degrees and the same extraction and insertion is repeated in the rear. Then the vehicle drives off for another 500 mile range where within a minute the sequence is repeated then at the next swap station and so on and on.A 'solectria EV' car using nickle metal hydride batteries occuping no more space than one of these batteries went from Boston to New York on one charge which equals about 250 miles.Note: The third stack shown in the sketch above is for batteries no longer rechargeable.Every battery is tested for that purpose at the start of the recharging process. If rejected it is transferred to the 3rd'service' stack at the far rear as shown above and when,progressively, the vacant 'slot' in the 2nd stack reaches the level of the top of the 3rd, a new battery is inserted in theempty spot. As required a service truck with brand new batteries replenish the third stack with new ones and return the the old ones to the factory to be totally recycled.I.E. slice them open, reove the ingredients and reprocess them to for manufacturing new ones ,thus reducing the cost of materials and conserving the planets resources in the process. (cont.)
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