Or turning on the heater?
And the Supercharger that refuels your Tesla in 5 minutes is ... where?
And the Supercharger that refuels your Tesla in 5 minutes is ... where?
Tesla piloted their battery swap program over a year ago, where you could swap out your battery for a fully charged one in under 2 minutes. You'd get all your range back faster than you could refuel a gas car.
Want to know what happened? No one used it. Because no one cares about refueling in under 5 minutes if a supercharge station takes 15 - 30 or you can just plug in at home. It's literally not a thing people (in general) care about.
I don't know how to phrase this any other way. NO. ONE. CARES.
If: you had pre-made an appointment, first.
And: you paid to use it.
And: you ignored the fact that the pilot program was only in one location, and that location was meant solely to service SF-LA drivers on I-5, but was 15 miles from the freeway, so 2 minutes, plus a 45 minute round trip).
And: you ignored the chargers across the street from the battery swap program.
This is pretty disingenuous. If I was Elon Musk and I wanted to prove how little people "cared" about the time of a "2 minute battery swap", all of the above variables are pretty much how I'd set my pilot program for guaranteed failure.
Source: http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/teslas-battery-swap-is-dead/