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Discussion in 'Cybertruck: Battery & Charging' started by empiredown, Sep 25, 2020.

  1. empiredown

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    I also agree with him on a faster timeline...

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    I'm wondering about dynamic stresses. Will the "cast pan, steel cans, and epoxy" be ridiculously strong? yes ... but that's a lot of random forces hitting it for a million miles, so have to expect some amount of bending/cracking. Also, the cobalt-free chemistry complained of a 4x volume change between charged & discharged ... yeah there's a flexible polymer casing on the powdered anode, but still that seems a lot of flexing of a lot of cells over a long time. Maybe it all adds up to more durable than I expect; a million miles on a truck is a lot of kinetic energy. Convince me please.
     
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    How repairable will a vehicle be if the one piece casted front/rear is damaged and must be fixed/replaced? Will it be designed in a way to easily swapped it out?
     
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    Tesla must really trust their battery pack in order to make it non serviceable. I guess I've been here for a while reading about old model S vehicles that required lowner packs and new packs later installed.
     
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    Do they mean non serviceable as in it will be a throw away battery? Or the battery will not be removeable from the car. If the latter the pack could get damaged or fail then the car is totaled. That would suck. So if the battery were to fail under warranty will Tesla give you a new car
     
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    Looks like the pack is removable, but is now an integral part of the frame - not merely “battery pack”. One blown cell requires replacing a large fraction of the vehicle.
     

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