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I was having a discussion with my cousin who's a Tesla owner, one of the things we discussed was comparing an engine in a typical ICE vehicle and costs to a battery in an EV.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the battery cells are small cells that are linked together in a battery pack, and there are multiple battery packs that work in synergy to deliver the electricity.
Now, if yoy have cells that are going bad in a battery pack, would you need to replace the entire battery and all packs, or just that single battery pack out of the many?
My cousin said for Tesla, you have to replace everything and it's not modular.
He's also worked for Tesla recently so I am also giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Any news article that speaks about battery replacement use the term "battery replacement" as a singular term so it's difficult to decipher whether or not a single pack was replaced or the whole thing and all packs.
This would have an immense difference in cost depending on if it's modular or not (which I believe it is and even looking at Lucid's design, seems to be that way)
Because a single pack can be thousands or even ten thousand versus 50k+ or more for the whole thing depending on kw size of the whole pack.
Anyone have insight?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the battery cells are small cells that are linked together in a battery pack, and there are multiple battery packs that work in synergy to deliver the electricity.
Now, if yoy have cells that are going bad in a battery pack, would you need to replace the entire battery and all packs, or just that single battery pack out of the many?
My cousin said for Tesla, you have to replace everything and it's not modular.
He's also worked for Tesla recently so I am also giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Any news article that speaks about battery replacement use the term "battery replacement" as a singular term so it's difficult to decipher whether or not a single pack was replaced or the whole thing and all packs.
This would have an immense difference in cost depending on if it's modular or not (which I believe it is and even looking at Lucid's design, seems to be that way)
Because a single pack can be thousands or even ten thousand versus 50k+ or more for the whole thing depending on kw size of the whole pack.
Anyone have insight?