Oh yea, his premise is wrong as well. A large format cell is made up of many smaller cells in parallel. I opened a 100 Ah cell and it had 10 - 10Ah cells paralleled inside with no fuse between them: so if you loose one you loose them all.
Sent from my iPad > On Sep 9, 2018, at 6:24 AM, Willie via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > >> On 09/08/2018 09:38 PM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: >> Well, does anyone have actual numbers regarding failures of Teslas? Overall, >> they've been out long enough that "we" should know if there are reliability >> problems or not. On my part, I have not heard of any widespread Tesla >> failure. What reliability problems is C.S. referring to? > > Anecdotal, but I know of quite of few Ss that have had their batteries > replaced/repaired in warranty. On my ~130k mile 2013 S, the battery was > recently changed. There was no real obvious issue but the Tesla service > people said it should be changed. Range was still above 90% of original and > I had not complained of range loss; I considered the loss reasonable. I > would guess 30-50% of Tesla with more than 100k miles have had their > batteries replaced. Probably all under warranty; I have heard of no one who > had to buy a battery. Fact is, cost of replacement in generally unknown. It > seems Tesla is not replacing with new batteries. In some cases they install > a loaner battery while the faulty battery is being refurbished. In other > cases they replace with a refurbished battery. I assume the refurbishment > involves replacing a smallish number of bad cells. > > Much in contrast to Nissan, the battery replacements are painless; as > mentioned, I did not even know I had a battery problem but Tesla was eager to > make it right. Nissan refuses to replace obviously bad batteries. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
