Wow, huge misunderstanding of "reliability".. There is a huge difference between the poor reliability of large numbers of single-point failures compared to the HUGE redundancy in the Tesla battery with dozens of parallel redundancy at each step of the battery. I'd take the Tesla design any day as being far more reliable...
Bob On Monday, October 8, 2018 3:45 PM, Mark Hanson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Aside from the high price the main reason I wouldn't buy a Tesla is they're the only manufacturer that has uses 6800 flashlight batteries (2170) in an onroad vehicle. I just think of all those points of failure and the complexity of monitoring that reduces reliability. While Consumer Reports gave it high marks for handling etc, they gave it a low score for reliability. Currently they send a "Tesla Ranger" out to your house for a battery field repair as this cost is built into the price of a pricey car. I don't know how this business model will work on lower prices $30k versions. I'm surprised the media doesn't mention the thousands of itty bitty cells in a Tesla and that no one else does it that way for reliability reasons (even with each one fused) Have a renewable energy day Mark in Roanoke Va Www.Reevadiy.org. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181009/f8a47d14/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
