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Old 11-24-2008, 08:00 AM   #11
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I saw this picture in the SF Chronicle yesterday...




and then thought about this:
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Old 12-03-2008, 04:49 PM   #12
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More pics of Bill's Sig#55 posted here: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/tesla...er-photos.html
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Old 12-09-2008, 07:00 PM   #13
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At the 100th Roadster event today, Rachael Konrad took some journalists and me to go see the shop where the technicians do the drivetrain installations. Since it's related, I thought I'd post some of the pics I took in this thread. Sadly, I was using a snap camera with nowhere near the image quality of Bill's.


L-R: A Tesla technician named Andre, Rachael Konrad, and
a Korean journalist.

Andre (whom you may recognize him from Bill's photos) was nice enough to explain the installation process to me and answer my questions.


Motors:

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Old 12-09-2008, 07:10 PM   #14
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Ducting that goes around the motor for forced air cooling:



Under the car. The motor cooling fan is the black cylinder right of center.



BorgWarner transaxle in a box.


Jig for mounting the motor to the transaxle.
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Battery pack crates with freshness dating:
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Old 12-09-2008, 07:34 PM   #16
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Wonder what they do with 100 big wooden crates?
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Wonder what they do with 100 big wooden crates?
The battery packs are assembled right down the street in San Carlos, so assume they just reuse them.
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The battery packs are assembled right down the street in San Carlos, so assume they just reuse them.
I thought the battery packs were assembled in Taiwan. Remember the whole drop-a-battery-pack-to-pass-international-standards-testing-thing?

I guess they dropped that (pun) for just shipping the cells...
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Bill Arnett and his install pictures have been posted to the teslamotors site:
From Glider to Roadster: Watching My Car Get Built
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Hmm, I wonder where the idea to put an 18650 next to those other cells came from?

It's the Batteries, Stupid!
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