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Ford to build electric vehicle battery plants in Kentucky, creating 5,000 new jobs (2023 Update)

Apparently not.

So automakers seem to agree on building large battery packs out of garbage ass 18650 cells used in flashlights and exploding laptop batteries, but can't agree on a f****ng connector.

Fuck 'em all. Glad they can't get stupid hands on chips and are shutting down plants worldwide. I'd wager they're short of stupid custom parts like

555s with reversed pinouts, or someting else equally contrived.

I still do admire some of the electronics used in the automotive world. The packaging methods are pretty wild, along the lines the 1970s and 1980s when IBM was just off in the weeds with weirdly packaged chips and boards, which they could do as they make all the parts themselves.

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Cydrome Leader
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Was it IBM that produced some hotrod CPU board with chip on board and gold plating all around, not just on the pads? It was many years ago when there was still Power PC and Sparc and maybe even Apollo.

One thing I learned early on is that you must have some serious application requirements to justify anything hotrod in computing. The prices get high very fast and in a year or so it's surpassed by something cheaper. Commodity is the way to go unless you *really* need that 20% performance boost for the next six months.

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Rick C

On Saturday, 2 October 2021 at 09:29:37 UTC-7, Cydrome Leader wrote: ...

The Apple II had full schematics, used off the shelf parts and there was lots of information around.

Most computers in that era came with schematics, even the IBM PC.

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On Monday, 4 October 2021 at 15:21:49 UTC-7, Cydrome Leader wrote: ...

... Tesla is the only EV manufacturer that uses small cells, and they have are growing past using 18650s.

Here is an example from BMW that uses 12 cells made into a module.

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Tesla provides an adapter with every car to allow them to charge from the standard J1772 EVSE (It's not a charger, that is inside the vehicle).

kw

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That's true for all charging units, no? They are just power supplies of different voltage and currents and AC/DC.

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Rick C

Surprise, current lead acid batteries are fairly generic and not made of hundreds of individual cells strapped together. I wonder why.

I was researching why large NiMH battery packs never took off. It turns out some company had the patents on prismatic cells of useful sizes and refused to ever license it. I saw photos of NiMH cells about the size and shape of flooded NiCd cells for aircraft use, but they were never for sale, and never used in any sort of EV application. It's interesting it's a battery technology that was sort of skipped over.

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