flango@lemmy.eco.br to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anywaywww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1external-linkEV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anywaywww.scientificamerican.comflango@lemmy.eco.br to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前message-square31linkfedilinkfile-text
Fixing car and e-bike batteries saves money and resources, but challenges are holding back the industry
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 年前The whole repair thing should made super easy if we want EVs to succeed. Make all batteries use an easily swappable set of standard cell sizes. Make battery controllers standardised and swappable. …. Er… that’s it.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 年前But that will never happen because the EV manufacturers couldn’t charge ridiculous amounts of money for proprietary batteries.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前That why we need regulators. The market doesn’t magically deal with “Tragedy of the Commons”.
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前God forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.
minus-squareJeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前But you know gubmint regjuleshons are stifling innovation.
minus-squareSmashingSquid@notyour.rodeolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 年前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.
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 年前I heard NIO has this technology already and are looking to standardise it.
The whole repair thing should made super easy if we want EVs to succeed.
But that will never happen because the EV manufacturers couldn’t charge ridiculous amounts of money for proprietary batteries.
That why we need regulators. The market doesn’t magically deal with “Tragedy of the Commons”.
God forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.
But you know gubmint regjuleshons are stifling innovation.
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.
I heard NIO has this technology already and are looking to standardise it.