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Re:Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda'... by londons_explore on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @04:54PM (#45045118)
Nearly all EV's today would run just fine on 3.7 volts fewer.

My car's high voltage circuitry seems to work down to about half of the nominal voltage.

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Re:Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda'... by carlhjerpe on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:55PM (#45046329)
Is the failure mode of whatever chemistry is in an EV that they just conduct electricity? Li-Po usually fail in more spectacular ways than so.
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Re:Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda'... by namibj on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:11AM (#45050055)
There's NCA (drones), NMC (laptops, phones, many electric cars), LFP (stationary/grid), and LFMP (many new electric cars; slightly more expensive but higher current variant of LFP).
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Re:Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda'... by londons_explore on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:40PM (#45056799)
Yes, this happens sometimes.

Search this page for "PTC": https://www.electricbike.com/inside-18650-cell/

The PTC protects the rest of the battery if a single cell internally fails short.

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