Re:Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
by slownews45 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:50PM
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What a total scam that kind of clickbait video is.
There was that lemon law lawyer as well trying to go after tesla - also a scam.
I think one difference - Tesla doesn't seem to rollover for these scams as much as others do. Ie, they went after that lawyer, who'd pulled the same stunt on LOTS of other car companies. And won.
And the whole Rich Rebuilds stuff - I used to follow him, but it just devolved into a Tesla gripe fest. Ironically, while folks like Rich says Tesla is not opening stuff up enough they are going to have regulators breathing down their neck for every fire they have (most are things like household not car electrical wiring when clueless homeowner runs a high resistance socket onto their house wiring).
With 500K vehicles, the last thing they need to be focusing on is making these type of clickbait folks happy (Rich Rebuilds etc).
In terms of making frankenstein battery packs the way Rich says they should be made.
1) The BMS for these things has pretty tight tolerance.
2) The swap certain cells out is a disaster waiting to happen.
"No, the "remove a cell" thing is not a "fix" either. The result is the same, it just takes longer. Removing a cell is literally creating an SoC imbalance on purpose and it's idiotic that people who don't understand the Tesla BMS push this."
"I can't believe this is being touted as a fix. You can't replace individual modules in an S/X pack. There's no way to match them well enough for a long term fix. Might last a few months, but will invariably die again. Have tried it a half-dozen times. Best run was about a year.
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So we have folks pushing straight scam repairs here on HN as a way to tarnish Tesla.
There was that lemon law lawyer as well trying to go after tesla - also a scam.
I think one difference - Tesla doesn't seem to rollover for these scams as much as others do. Ie, they went after that lawyer, who'd pulled the same stunt on LOTS of other car companies. And won.
And the whole Rich Rebuilds stuff - I used to follow him, but it just devolved into a Tesla gripe fest. Ironically, while folks like Rich says Tesla is not opening stuff up enough they are going to have regulators breathing down their neck for every fire they have (most are things like household not car electrical wiring when clueless homeowner runs a high resistance socket onto their house wiring).
With 500K vehicles, the last thing they need to be focusing on is making these type of clickbait folks happy (Rich Rebuilds etc).
In terms of making frankenstein battery packs the way Rich says they should be made.
1) The BMS for these things has pretty tight tolerance.
2) The swap certain cells out is a disaster waiting to happen.
"No, the "remove a cell" thing is not a "fix" either. The result is the same, it just takes longer. Removing a cell is literally creating an SoC imbalance on purpose and it's idiotic that people who don't understand the Tesla BMS push this."
https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1437607772959428608
"I can't believe this is being touted as a fix. You can't replace individual modules in an S/X pack. There's no way to match them well enough for a long term fix. Might last a few months, but will invariably die again. Have tried it a half-dozen times. Best run was about a year. "
So we have folks pushing straight scam repairs here on HN as a way to tarnish Tesla.