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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -1.40% Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted Friday that a battery-pack swap station is operating between San Francisco and Los Angeles in "limited beta mode." Drivers of Tesla's electric cars would be able to swap their drained batteries "faster than visiting a gas station," Musk said on the tweet. A blog about the swap station is forthcoming, he said. In a video available on Tesla's website about battery swaps, Musk said drivers can either use a Tesla supercharger station to recharge the battery in their car, which "is and always will be free", or choose to swap the battery, which would take a minute and a half but would not be free. The battery swap option is another step in "convincing the skeptics," showing that an electric car is more convenient than a gasoline car, Musk said in the video. "That's what convinces people finally that electric cars are the future," Musk said.