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Re:Electric vehicle battery causes fire at Sydney Airport, d... by tempaway12641 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:37AM (#37479051)
Battery packs have a lot of innovation in them, its not just a load of batteries lashed together. There's monitoring systems, cooling, balancing. And squeezing more efficiency out of them is very important. So standardisation of EV battery packs is about as likely as having standardised swappable petrol engines.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery causes fire at Sydney Airport, d... by bluescrn on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:46AM (#37479124)
The internals of the packs can vary over time, so long as they're a standardised size with standardised connections.

Ideally, once a pack is degraded, maybe after a decade, you'll be able to buy less expensive replacements that have more range, or even used packs salvaged from written-off vehicles - rather than scrapping the whole vehicle.

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