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EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 11 months ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

But you know gubmint regjuleshons are stifling innovation.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago

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