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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Plus the newer cells are more efficient and longer-lasting. You pretty much upgraded your vehicle.

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually the low cost part of this was that they weren't upgraded cells. Just tested-good cells from other battery packs. Most of the time it's just a couple cells in the bigger battery that have issues, and they take those out of the pool and make a good amount of $$$ because we were required to send back all of our cells. Assuming that of the 26 (iirc) cells that 3 or 4 were bad that's a big profit margin for sure. The car worked great after swapping them out.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

That's awesome. This is such a simple hack.