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I believe one of the feasibilities we have with electric locomotion is the standardization of components: electric motors, motor controllers, batteries and batt
by hn_submit 20d ago
I believe one of the feasibilities we have with electric locomotion is the standardization of components: electric motors, motor controllers, batteries and battery chargers. These being interchangeable will lead to lower costs through competition and more innovation.
It's disappointing that manufacturers are moving the other way to enable vendor lock-in. But only one manufacturer has to jump the fence and the others will be left behind.
- awakeasleep 20d agoI’m suspicious of this vision because for example, with battery packs, cells with compatible voltage and size have vastly different characteristics. Those characteristics, like safe discharge rate, capacity, projected cycle count, are all things that manufactures exaggerate or get wrong. I don’t think there’s any way that consumers can ever be informed enough to have an efficient market in products such as those
- hn_submit 20d agoI can imagine a future where batteries and chargers communicate using an open-source protocol just as they are doing now over USB.
- Gigachad 20d agoIf the batteries are a full pack which contain their own internal charge controller, etc. Raw cells can't communicate anything. The problem is the consumer can't tell the difference between a well engineered pack and one that will explode in their apartment overnight.