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Old 01-17-2020, 02:31 PM   #77 (permalink)
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The beauty of an EV is that if you come up with a better battery, the rest of the car continues to perform as originally designed.

Come up with a less toxic battery chemistry? Better power density? Swap that rascal in. Make whatever changes are necessary to the power conditioning hardware but the rest of the car is, well, a car.

It's like an engine swap, except in this case it's more analogous to a fuel tank swap.
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