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Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line (www.thedrive.com)
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Recycling when EV batteries get down to 80%-of-range level can be tricky. But there's no necessity if there are many immediate uses for batteries that are 'down' to 240 instead of 300.

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 18 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

From the article:

In fact, the company has just begun field testing one application at partner Mazda’s Hiroshima plant.

I wanted to see what their partnership was like so I checked on Wikipedia:

In the past and present, Mazda has been engaged in alliances with other automakers. From 1974 until the late 2000s, Ford was a major shareholder of Mazda. Other partnerships include Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki and Kia.

Source: Wikipedia: Mazda

Wow. I didn't really expect Mazda to be involved with 6 other car manufacturers.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I remember in the ’90s/’00s there were a few Mazda and Ford vehicles that were basically the same, most obviously to me the Ford Ranger and Mazda B-series pickup truck.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

IIRC, the Mazda3 was based on the same platform as the European version of the Ford Focus

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and the Mazda6 and Mustang shared a platform.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They were both assembled in Flat Rock at the same time, but the Mazda based platform was CD3. That's the Fusion and Edge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_CD3_platform

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes. Thank you for that correction! I knew it shared one and I conflated the assembly line with the platform.

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