Third Party 1.5 Battery Replacement???
Here is a thought;
At my company we are working on developing a custom-built battery department. I am quite confident we could take a Roadster pack and built new battery sheets for it and install them in the existing space using the same dimensions.
We would need someone willing to be our guinea-pig of course. The ending result would be 75kwh pack and at this point it would be conceivable that our price would be right around $30K for that pack. We would be using LG HG2 cells for your reference (they are 3,000 mAh 18650 cells which are rated for high discharge of nearly 7C, meaning the entire pack would be "rated" for 430kw discharge, which is almost double what the Roadster really pulls at peak, therefore the temperatures should stay lower than in the standard set-up).
I know there is at least one "dead" 1.5 in the Phoenix area and that may the perfect candidate for us to rebuild.
If we got a committed party we could start the process and it would probably take about 2 months to get us tooled-up and have the new pack ready.
Any interested parties?
The main benefit for us is that we get a nice bulk of battery cells to add to our initial PO, which brings our cost per cell down, making our business plan more feasible!
Please email me at [email protected] if interested, I don't get on the forums much anymore since I sold my Roadster...
Here is a thought;
At my company we are working on developing a custom-built battery department. I am quite confident we could take a Roadster pack and built new battery sheets for it and install them in the existing space using the same dimensions.
We would need someone willing to be our guinea-pig of course. The ending result would be 75kwh pack and at this point it would be conceivable that our price would be right around $30K for that pack. We would be using LG HG2 cells for your reference (they are 3,000 mAh 18650 cells which are rated for high discharge of nearly 7C, meaning the entire pack would be "rated" for 430kw discharge, which is almost double what the Roadster really pulls at peak, therefore the temperatures should stay lower than in the standard set-up).
I know there is at least one "dead" 1.5 in the Phoenix area and that may the perfect candidate for us to rebuild.
If we got a committed party we could start the process and it would probably take about 2 months to get us tooled-up and have the new pack ready.
Any interested parties?
The main benefit for us is that we get a nice bulk of battery cells to add to our initial PO, which brings our cost per cell down, making our business plan more feasible!
Please email me at [email protected] if interested, I don't get on the forums much anymore since I sold my Roadster...