LectrikPower
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Umm I'm pretty sure that a lithium ion cell will short and vent hot gass/fire if punctured. Maybe some time they won't but hundreds maybe thousands? Absolutely. I smell BS.
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I wonder if anyone who’s VIN he listed would have a legal standing to sue him. This could potentially lead to decreased resale value, doesn’t really matter if it’s true or not.
Man, I saw this list and promptly took a crow bar to my battery pack. It looked good at first, but after drilling through a few hundred cells, I can confirm that my battery pack is indeed defective.... several drill bit sized holes throughout..... this type of build quality is unacceptable.... if Tesla can't put a battery in a car without a bunch of drill holes in the pack, who can I trust? I blame Elon.Tesla whistleblower/saboteur releases VIN of Model 3s with alleged punctured battery cells
Tripp claims that he was able to track the vehicles that received those cells and now he released on Twitter the VINs of the Model 3 vehicles with the alleged punctured battery cells
So who's got a VIN on this list?
There's a lot of shorts out there that would gladly consider him after this BS.I feel bad for this guy. Leaving the lawsuit aside, can you imagine this guy ever finding a descent job again after this?
select vin from cardata where battery_cell=hosed;
I don't know about that... Isn't the white, semi-transparent plastic overlay what they call "Clamshell"? If so, isn't that what they removed (with Dremel), so any "patterns" you might see in the first picture could be different with a new Clamshell?- The "remade battery pack" is not the same pack in the two pictures, evidenced by the pattern on top of the packs.
This is a VERY common issue in which the ‘clamshell’ or plastic housing was lifted. So the Tech has to cut it away, grind off the adhesive and apply a new piece of plastic. These are never cleaned well, so there is debris and wood embedded between cells.
- The "remade battery pack" is not the same pack in the two pictures, evidenced by the pattern on top of the packs.
- His picture of the "scrap bandoliers" is hard for me to tell what is scrap for certain
- The cooling tubes that should be straight if I'm not mistaken is a part that is sandwiched between cells in the module, meaning that it doesn't matter if it is bent as it will automatically be fit properly in the cell
This makes no sense to me because if he was so concerned about retiring, why did he try to get all this data from Tesla and share it?
Maybe I don't understand what these are (and if so, I don't think Tripp does either
- Finally, his module puncturing thing shows they found a potential defect in certain cells, so those battery packs were manually repaired to ensure the batteries would not charge and were capped. Tesla uses 4416 of these in a Model 3. If one of those were disconnected, it would result in a 0.07 mile range loss for the car