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Re:YASA beats own power density record pushing electric moto... by stavros on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:59PM (#45677029)
And yet my VTC-6 are still the same capacity as five years ago :(
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Re:YASA beats own power density record pushing electric moto... by epistasis on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:12PM (#45677104)
hah, well it appears that the capacity may be part of the standardization for that?
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Re:YASA beats own power density record pushing electric moto... by stavros on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:19PM (#45677136)
Oh I'd really hope not, who wouldn't want higher capacity 18650 cells? Maybe they wouldn't be VTC-6, but those are the highest capacity cells I've managed to find!
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Re:YASA beats own power density record pushing electric moto... by aidenn0 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @01:24AM (#45678415)
If they changed it you'd need a new BMC, right?
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Re:YASA beats own power density record pushing electric moto... by stavros on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:32AM (#45679208)
No, the BMC tends to not care about capacity. You'd maybe need to change the software, but because the capacity changes over the lifetime of the battery, the BMC tends to go by voltage anyway.
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