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EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Fixing car and e-bike batteries saves money and resources, but challenges are holding back the industry

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[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The whole repair thing should made super easy if we want EVs to succeed.

  1. Make all batteries use an easily swappable set of standard cell sizes.
  2. Make battery controllers standardised and swappable.
  3. …. Er… that’s it.
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But that will never happen because the EV manufacturers couldn't charge ridiculous amounts of money for proprietary batteries.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

That why we need regulators. The market doesn't magically deal with "Tragedy of the Commons".

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

God forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

But you know gubmint regjuleshons are stifling innovation.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This was posted to one of the communities I sub to a day ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335

This would probably be the best option if it takes off.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago

I heard NIO has this technology already and are looking to standardise it.