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Re:India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries by phkahler on Thursday September 03, 2020 @10:13PM (#24371087)
Unless they are going to dictate a lot of technical details this ignores a number of safety concerns. Electric vehicles typically design safety in at the vehicle level. There may be several high voltage capacitors in the system which can kill you in an instant if not properly discharged. Manufacturers also consider things like severed cables in an accident and plan for that when considering how to dissipate that charge in different scenarios.

It will get sorted I'm sure, but there are often technical details that change when changes like this are made.

They will even need to standardize connectors and possibly protocols to really do this well.

Re:India authorises sale of electric vehicles without batteries by bluedays on Thursday September 03, 2020 @11:24PM (#24371424)
In the Prius III (the only one I personally worked on) there is a safety plug which cuts the voltage. It's actually pretty simple once you start to understand how the system works.