• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m very excited by the prospect of aftermarket batteries with better technology. This doesn’t get discussed super often, but as an owner of a gen 1 leaf with an aging battery, I’ve very excited by this.

    To sum up the premise: volts are volts and watts are watts. So long as can get something with a comparable battery controller into the right size and shape and space, its basically arbitrary what technology is making the angry pixies go from - to +.

    This opens the door for range improvements to much older EV’s.

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      6 months ago

      volts are volts and watts are watts

      If you tell me this while I work on electrical problem on these vehicles I’ll shit yourself.

      My shop spent a month yelling at our parts because they said “the alternator has the same electrical requirement. Why wouldn’t it work?” We put it in, and it didn’t work. Wow crazy! Did you know signals are just pulses. These shit ass companies can make it so if you use anything but proprietary garbage it just won’t work.

      I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at Ford once again being your typical company.