Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project...
by Retric on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:25PM
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Individual cells might in theory be modular, but Tesla for example is gluing them to their battery packs which makes them much harder to reuse at the individual cell levels. The battery pack it’s self is becoming a structural element though it can still be removed, but unfortunately it’s proprietary.
On top of this EV batteries are getting very close to lasting the normal lifetime of the vehicle. Car manufacturers are likely to tray and leverage this as a form of built in obsolescence by making replacing the battery unappealing under normal usage patterns.
Re:Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project...
by fiftyfifty on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:08AM
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Here's some pictures of Tesla's plans for it's battery pack:
https://electrek.co/2021/01/19/tesla-structural-battery-pack...
In that article it specifically mentions the cells being "bound" (their words not mine) into the honeycomb pack.
The iconic Tesla battery-skate design is still modular/replaceable for example (they're all 18650/2170/etc cells).