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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by criley2 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @07:37AM (#33393530)
Your car doesn't have to know about the "chemistry" of your battery. It just needs to know specifics about voltages and power draw and temperatures. This is what drivers do.

This is like suggesting that my computer can't go from AMD to nvidia because they would need to know deep specifics about AMD's proprietary chips to support them. But that's what drivers are for!

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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by what-the-grump on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:10AM (#33394181)
That’s because your video card sits on a standard well defined port. Where as charging an EV right now comes a bunch of plugs, voltages, charging times, etc. until a unified open standard is reached where you can go from super charging a Tesla to charging a sodium hyndai is reached, this whole ev dance will remain anti consumer.
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