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Are you sure Tesla batteries are structural? They don’t look it and I haven’t heard that claimed before. Lowering at speed has been around for a long time it wa

• natch 6y ago
  To your question yes, it’s well known and has been widely covered. It’s always interesting to me that absence of knowledge of something is taken as a basis for believing that the thing is not happening. Lowering not invented by Tesla, fair point. It seems I do the same thing too.
  • Neil44 6y ago
    I feel like I know more than most people about it, I've seen Sandy Munro and Ritchie B Kidd tear them apart and talk about them, I've just googled tesla battery structural and found nothing. They are a thin metal stamping held up by a few bolts. The one in the Dyson pics looks like its built into a deep aluminium floorpan rather than being a separately cased item.