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Professor Kelly and Munro do similar things, take cars apart. Munto to calculate the cost of parts and labor to make a car. Kelly does it to teach mechanics how to take it apart and it back in working order.

This 2024 traction battery is much improved over the one in my former, 2017 Prius Prime. Given what I've learned from Munro, it could be designed better but there have been much worse.

• BEST
  • Direct thermal management instead of air flow
  • Conformal underbody part
  • Direct refrigerant for cell cooling
• COULD BE BETTER
  • Colocate all possible power electronics with the battery
  • Even number of modules so all power terminals on one end
  • Cooling from a single spot leads to thermal gradients inside the cells

The Toyota lead engineer needs to hold a 'conference' with everyone designing, making, and fixing the battery with this goal:

• Reduce parts count

Bob Wilson

The new Corolla is arriving as early as in 2026, and it will have the revolutionary Toyota super-lean-burn engine, which will increase the thermal efficiency to near 50%. It could have an EPA fuel economy of as high as 70+ mpg. There will also be a PHEV version. We will see if TSS will be upgraded to 4.0 as well.

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