A popular youtube channel, boostedboiz, is repairing a wrecked Tesla Cybertruck.
The Cybertruck was t-boned from the side.
Many people have been concerned that the steel shell and other steel frame structures of the Tesla Cybertruck would make it difficult and expensive to repair.
This video series will go into the details of how a Tesla Cybertruck can be repaired. It will also reveal the computer diagnostics and a lot of other detailed technology in the truck.
The second and most recent video in the series show how they had to charge the low voltage battery in order to enable the truck to run off of the high voltage battery.
They were able to get the low voltage battery replaced enabled electronic controls like door opening to work and the main screen and computer.
They were able to use overrides of the detected problems to get to an emergency mode where the vehicle can drive up to 4 miles per hour.
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The biggest concern for me when it comes to electric car repairs, is mechanics seem to have a deeply-ingrained fear of anything electrical. It’s not hard to re-cell a battery pack and get it running at full capacity again, and the parts to do so are cheap and widely available. It’s just that the knowledge isn’t there yet in the people that are going to need it. There needs to be a big re-training programme, because whatever the power source for cars in the future (battery, hydrogen, or something as-yet unknown), it’ll be an electric motor propelling them.
Recelling a Tesla battery pack is kind of fraught, though, isn’t it? Last I saw one, they closed them with glue and used the battery pack as a structural element.
Yes, it can be removed and replaced, but rebuilding it in place seems to be a go-go, and even reworking the pack would appear to be more a matter of re-manufacture using some recycled parts, than simply swapping batteries in and out such as is feasible with some electric cars.
And even removing the battery pack is closer to disassembling the car, than it is swapping a part. It’s nothing like changing the battery in electric cars where the battery is just an electrical component riding in the body. I use Leaf batteries in my robotics hobby, and they’re just big conventional batteries, really. Nothing like what Tesla is doing.
Yeah, but I guess it comes down to “right to repair”. These electric cars we have now are still actually quite early models in the grand scheme of things. They’ll take over eventually, and the ones we’ll see on the roads in 40 years that are considered “classics” are the ones that are repairable because everything else will be dust.
Dear Brett:
For the record, I peruse review of journals that have something to do with technology I’m interested in. It also has to do with the world and nation state I live on/in. I hope to get answers to questions, I was was to stupid to ask. Sometimes I get lucky, Sometimes, not so much.
I’m trying to remember the Journal I saw this in. but it involved “tweaking” lithium batteries by adding certain materials so they would NOT burst into flames. I’ll try to find that article. I used to pass on articles to guys who worked in my company in the 1980’s. It may not have much to do with what our company was doing at the time.
But if someone was interested in something whose interests were whatever, I’d pass that along. This was so MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to do before the internet. It TOOK WORK. So I did it. I did it because I cared. Really. I will try to get you, (and everyone) that article. .
Self repairing technology should be obvious to Tesla. (Rule #1; Never assume anyone else is aware of something that to you, is obvious). I can see biochemical, biological, morphological methods to physically reconstruct materials. Start with self-repairing surfaces (which is actually
actions that happen at the 4D level) Actions “emote” or emerge from the nano, to micro, to macro level. I want a car (or truck) that repairs itself, even with structural damage. If no one else won’t invent the technology, I will. (Someone has to) Don’t worry, in a few years this won’t seem so “weird”.
Go for it. More power to the doers!