Not a matter of if. It will have cooling. Question is whether it needs all the electronic control units or if the standard pack has them built in.
Are you going to suggest a battery that will add 180 miles of range and need to be able to be fast charged wont have cooling?
The fact that you are asking if a battery in a modern ev needs cooling when you have put out all types of technical data relating to the CT which has been very helpful is quite confusing. You know it needs it, you know it will have it. You know Tesla has said the extender can only been installed by service centers. All together, this tells you that it will have cooling and all kinds of other connections and that isn't just a plug and play external battery pack.
Tesla would not need to have this and charge in excess of 16,000 and destroy the bed space capacity if they would have only produced what they promised in 2019. Elon said.. 500 miles of range for 69,900. Then his next statement was, no you can order it.
Y’all wanted a smaller truck for your garage, where did you think the space came from?
weight? Tesla planned technological improvements? Rimac being benchmarked?
Looks like they made too many engineering compromises. One would think that Tesla's brilliant engineers could come up with something better.
I couldn’t imagine trying to fit 70lbs of ‘zomg 50k truck’ wants, into a ‘50lb $80k bean counter’ bag.
Which is why 500 real world miles of range is the key. Without it’s just a toy.
If you think Roadster 2 will be anywhere near what was promised then let me tell you about the Cybertruck 2... 1,000 mile range at $50k.
I don't think we know enough yet to be sure. Chances are you are right - but we just don't know enough yet as to how exactly the range extender pack will work. It might not be directly accessible to the main pack - it might simply feed power into the main pack on a persistent basis as the main pack drains from usage for example - in which case it may not require near the amount of management or cooling that the main pack requires, not unlike how a generator would be used to charge the main pack on the Ramcharger 1500 (which will use the venerable Pentastar V6 to charge the main pack continuously). I honestly think this actually hasn't all been worked out by Tesla yet - which is why they are forecasting no range extender availability until late 2024, which likely really means sometime in 2025.
Mountain meet mole hill. You all are way overestimating how difficult it will be to create the RE. This is Tesla we're talking about, not GM.
