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re: Tesla - and they have individual fuses on every cell. And they have liquid cooling for every cell. And they have a rugged enclosure that has been designed t

• agumonkey 9y ago
  Have you seen docs about their batteries ?
  • jpm_sd 9y ago
    yes, they made all their patents public awhile back. also: https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+battery+teardown&oq=tesla+battery+teardown https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+battery+teardown&oq=te...
    • gruez 9y ago
      aren't all patents required to be public?
      • jpm_sd 9y ago
        derp, I meant [quasi-]"public domain" and therefore, in some legal sense, safe for engineers to read without fear of getting sued. https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      Somehow I never considered batteries as part of their IP :) Thanks
  • cagenut 9y ago
    not a doc but a good writeup with pictures of failure testing the 'powerpack' product: https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-safety/ https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf... I sure as shit would not want 1/10th of that in my garage ever.
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      Thanks
• vamin 9y ago
  Not arguing that you shouldn't pay close attention to safety considerations, but many of those optimizations are necessary for Tesla because they have constraints that would be easy to relax in a DIY scenario: very low volume/high density, the possibility of a collision, consistent proximity to humans, etc. I don't think it's fair to suggest that you need to be individually liquid cooling every cell to ensure safety.