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Since you mention them - I wonder if Tesla might actually be an ideal customer. As you say, they are vertically integrated, they are well set up to produce the
by gpm 5y ago
Since you mention them - I wonder if Tesla might actually be an ideal customer.
As you say, they are vertically integrated, they are well set up to produce the full stack of the technology. They also need compressors (for air conditioning, and at least in their trucks for other systems), that need to be compact and energy efficient. The technologies at play (pressurized fluids, eletric motors and magnets) are all very familiar to them.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThey have their own patent for their highly efficient octovalve heat pump in the Model Y. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/03/teslas-octovalve-enabled-a-staggering-10-increase-in-range-for-the-model-y/ https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/03/teslas-octovalve-enable... > In the Tesla Model Y, the heat pump was a true engineering marvel. Elon admitted on the podcast that he has a trophy rack of impressive tech his teams have come up with in his bedroom at home. The new printed circuit board (PCB) for the Tesla Octovalve was so impressive to Elon that he added it to his bedroom trophy rack.
- gpm 5y agoYou got me curious. It looks like their innovation here is in fluid routing, and they're just using a standard compressor: https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-ys-octovalve-and-cooling-system-manifol-1843342722 https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-ys-octovalve-and-coolin... It's probably pretty easy to swap out the compressor for a new design, fundamentally all compressors do the same thing.