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You can kinda make that sound bad, and it might have been bad, but reworking pieces is standard practice in many industries. "Fixed with adhesive" sounds like

• mrguyorama 8y ago
  A punctured lithium cell is not a minor defect
  • ebikelaw 8y ago
    You're right but without more information we shouldn't really take what's printed in the newspaper at face value. Was it really a punctured _cell_ as you and I understand it, or was it a punctured _assembly_? A battery pack has a lot of sheet metal and supporting materials etc.
  • rasz 8y ago
    Tesla doesnt use plastic Lithium cells, they use standard 18650 and 2170 metal ones. >plastic housing (called a clamshell) is an external insulating case for the whole battery pack, there is metal case inside it, and another one on top of it.
    • mrguyorama 8y ago
      >punctured through the plastic housing (called a clamshell) and into some battery cells Emphasis mine. I interpreted that as also popping some of the individual cells. If you replaced the individual cells that were breached you could probably be okay, but at the same time, look at how minor the defect was that was causing Samsung phones to catch fire
      • rasz 8y ago
        Cellphone batteries are soft plastic pouches.