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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by SECProto on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:05PM (#28925289)
> Real difficult replace something that's a integral structural member of the car

If you look at some recent photos [1] of the Tesla Berlin tour, the "structural battery pack" is still a bolt-in part of the car - it just carries some of the loads and has the seats bolted to it. If it's a standardized design, eg used for multiple model years, it should be a fairly standard replacement part in another decade or so. And the more efficient structural will reduce steel consumption by thousands of tonnes per year and reduce curb weight and increase mileage. Win-win-win for the environment.

I'm an optimist.

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/10/10/tesla-unveils-new-structural-...

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by waiseristy on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:27PM (#28925418)
Nice link, looks like they still might have enough meat on the chassis to not require weird temporary structural bracing when unbolting the pack. It's almost like a body-on-pack, like the body-on-frame of old.
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