flango@lemmy.eco.br to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoEV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anywaywww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkEV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anywaywww.scientificamerican.comflango@lemmy.eco.br to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
Fixing car and e-bike batteries saves money and resources, but challenges are holding back the industry
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months agoThe 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-up5·11 months agoBut that will never happen because the EV manufacturers couldn’t charge ridiculous amounts of money for proprietary batteries.
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoGod forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat why we need regulators. The market doesn’t magically deal with “Tragedy of the Commons”.
minus-squareSmashingSquid@notyour.rodeolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoThis 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.
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.
God forbid that they concentrate on the quality of the basic vehicle instead.
That why we need regulators. The market doesn’t magically deal with “Tragedy of the Commons”.
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.