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Can I get one to replace my Tesla Model 3 battery pack?

How about my BMW i3 pack?

Anyone else have an EV pack you’d consider replacing for this superior and cheap battery?

Almost forgot, my solar roof battery. Do you have one?

Bob Wilson

 

I don't think anyone has a replacement for Tesla than Tesla. They are very tight on who
can work on there car. I don't believe anyone has access to their software. And if they don't,
it won't recognize any battery then Tesla's. Maybe eventually....

Not sure about the BMW.

Solar battery?????? I don't believe it has a battery. The solar panel powers the fan.

I had the prototype Solar battery. It was great! 2 weeks ago I installed the finish version.
It is even better! Very easy to install, it fit perfectly. And it's even better. Driving in the EV mode is
close to 2 miles. And more power! Jack did a great job!

You can't go wrong with it.

 

Insert any EV except the Toyota Prius, ~210 VDC battery. You' all have mastered the battery controller interface and that is not a trivial problem. I've seen a Chinese replacement for the BMW i3. But you've answered my question . . . are you real and have a clue and the answer is YES.

So let me share some of my requirements. That doesn't mean I expect a product but just sharing what I've learned:

• NCA (also NMC) battery chemistry 'ages out' - there are irreversible chemical changes that lock up and degrade the electrolyte, anode, and cathode over calendar time. We can reduce the rate of this inevitable degradation but not stop it. Even on the shelf at an optimum SOC, they age but over decade time scales.
  • A 3d party EV battery is a 'hard' problem like Operating System programming I used to do.
• Full Self Driving (and AutoPilot) work - to reduce driver load and improve safety. There is a promising, open-source, self driving effort but speed and universal application to most EVs will be slow in coming ... no one is being paid in the open source project. But FSD and its derated AutoPilot work and I would replace my BMW i3 with a used Tesla that comes with FSD in a heartbeat for the right price and at least a year of battery warranty remaining.

I chose to replace my former 2003 Prius traction battery with a rebuild using the improved prismatic cells BEFORE the first pack wore out. You are doing good work in the right area.

So KUDOS for what you've achieved and I wish you the best of luck.

Bob Wilson

 

A handful of non-employee developers, for the purpose of attempting to make softwear more bulletproof - yes, they're out their. Supposedly it pays quite handsomely.

 

You left something out.... "Maybe eventually...."
And I said I didn't know.... I didn't say there weren't any....

 

??? I don't know what you're typing about. Perhaps it is getting lost in translation... I don't know.

I have not achieved anything. Jack and his team did all the work... I just installed it and worked the battery
as he wanted me to do to try and break it so he could find any weak spots or flaws. That is the purpose of a
prototype.

Since I don't have a tesla or bmw, I have no idea who's making non oem batteries for those cars.

My ideal vehicle would be one with all the room I need, no matter what, super comfortable, fast,
would get 500 mpg no mater how I drove it. SUPER EASY to repair, but come with parts that last
3-400,000 miles, and are super inexpensive.
Super safe so what some idiot who shouldn't be driving wrecks into me, nothing happens to by vehicle.

Obviously, no such vehicle will ever exist, sadly. So we suffer through.

All this battery tech is semi new, but it is progressing. I'd love to see a battery that lasts 50 years, weights
about 20#'s, about the size of my 16inch MBPro and cost $20......

 

Any idea when these will be available again? I desperately need to replace my failed Lithium pack.

 

Contact Jack... I don't know how many he has or when he gets them.

 

The new version Sodium GT2 will come out in December.

 

Anyone else find it odd that the version after 'V3 GT' is 'GT2'?
Is V3 GT's 13 months production run a new NexPower record?
Sigh, guess I'll make time on my calendar to review it.

 

Do you really think companies do not improve design every year?

I guess you choose to ignore all the other electronic and automotive companies that do the same thing and just want to trash talk for no reason at all.


Example: Apple phones, different version number for slightly different components.

Focus on your ideas and bad karma will not haunt you.

 

Some companies do, yes.

Counterexample: NexPower.

Right, but "all the other ... companies" improve their product with each new release.

Is bypassing the fuse and service disconnect in a product shipped to customers "trash talk for no reason at all"?
Is continuing to ship a product without supervisory control "trash talk for no reason at all"?
Is pointing out a product's severe capacity limitations "trash talk for no reason at all"?
Is pointing out obvious safety issues when a customer's Project Lithium Battery Caught Fire "trash talk for no reason at all"?
Is pointing out that the V3 sodium cells almost immediately overheated during my long term test "trash talk for no reason at all"?
Is showing the egregious flaws with the Signal Soother product "trash talk for no reason at all"?

I have plenty of reasons to talk about NexPower's ill-conceived products. They've abysmal from a design perspective and dangerous to sell in the automotive space.

The Toyota community deserves to know when unsafe products are offered to them for sale.
I will continue reviewing NexPower products as long as I please.
This includes the V4 Sodium – err... Sodium GT2 – product when I get my hands on it.

My previous bounty offer still exists:
I will pay actual cost + $500 for any new NexPower product.

 

Yeah its all trash talk coming from you.

Keep your focus on this while everything around you falls apart.

 

Can I order this today?

 

See post #48

 

so maybe yes maybe no maybe never?