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SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s a lot of words to say, what you said is absolutely how battery packs work to limit total failures.

Can you provide a link to a battery pack design that is one total massive cell like you’re saying instead of multiple individual?

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ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not sure where you’re getting “one total massive cell” from anything I wrote.

Every pack is made of a bunch of smaller batteries. You can’t get 400v without batteries in series, from batteries that only make ~3v.

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- SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  That is ~16lbs of copper alone.
  
  So 1% of a 1600lb pack? Wow so detrimental….
  
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  - ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It is, especially when the choice that leads to that extra weight is less reliable, less efficient, and more costly. All things you don’t particularly want in a car
    
    So let’s get back to the real discussion on how the packs actually work. Can you explain how a microcontroller is supposed to put cells in and out of the circuit?
    
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