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US 2010/0141206 A1Published application
Battery Exchange Station
AssigneeBetter Place GmbH
InventorsShai Agassi, Yoav Heichal
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AssigneeBetter Place GmbH
InventorsShai Agassi, Yoav Heichal
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At a battery exchange station a discharged battery is removed and a charged battery is inserted into an electric vehicle. The battery exchange station has various mechanisms to make this exchange. In some embodiments, the batteries are stored in a warehouse, where they are given an appropriate amount of charge. The charged batteries are moved from the warehouse by an automated robotic mechanism. The automated robotic system provides the charged battery to a battery exchange system which inserts the charged battery into the vehicle after it removes the discharged battery from the vehicle. The insertion and removal of the battery is done vertically, i.e., into and out of the bottom of the vehicle. The battery exchange system is located in a service bay under the vehicle. A sliding door system creates an opening above the service bay. The opening is of variable size depending on the size of the vehicle.
A sliding door system for providing access to an underside of a vehicle, comprising:
A method of servicing a vehicle, comprising:
A battery exchange station, comprising:
A method of exchanging a battery in an at least partially electric vehicle, comprising:
An expandable modular system of racks with a plurality of rack modules for charging batteries of different sizes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.