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Originally Posted by jamesqf
OTOH, sensible design would make the battery out of smaller, identical modules, so you could put say 6, 8, or 10 of them in a car. And really sensible design would standardize the size and connectors between manufacturers, the same way that AAA, AA, C, and D sized batteries, or the way you can easily upgrade say the disk drive in your computer without having to buy a manufacturer-specific model. (Well, unless you bought an Apple product :-()
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The battery layout is optimized for performance, weight, cooling and crash safety. It is hard to combine those qualities with a modular, expandable design.
It may be doable to have 3 different battery sizes - but the less variation, the better for the process.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
IDK. I think a lot of the problems are down to his decisions. It seems as though for every good idea he comes up with, he has to do something really dumb to balance things.
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If anything, the biggest fault Tesla made was to rely on outside suppliers. So now they make most of what they need themselves, or they simply buy the supplier (like Grohmann) to get things right - even
flying in the tools (instead of shipping) to speed up production.
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