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No, making good cells is actually the hard part. The charging electronics is simple and easy. You can buy these ICs for cents from the usual suspects. Or does T
by davrosthedalek 8y ago
No, making good cells is actually the hard part. The charging electronics is simple and easy. You can buy these ICs for cents from the usual suspects. Or does TESLA have some special, hard to circumvent, patent on the charging algo?
- codeulike 8y agoIt's more than charging. It's cell monitoring, cooling, protection systems. EV Battery packs are complicated.
- Carlee 8y agoMaking a BMS is by no means simple or cheap in the range of cents. It's hard to make good cells, but creating a good BMS, designing an easy way to at fuse wires, creating cooling bands and figuring out how to do so on a huge scale is just as hard
- sowbug 8y agoTesla has promised not to stop anyone using its patents in furtherance of the same mission to accelerate the advent of sustainable transportation. https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you