Tesla Plaid Battery Has a Big Problem

We are in the remanufacturing business and that’s what I’d like to point out is that this battery was built to be very difficult to remanufacture. Two of the things I wanted to point out are actually right here in front of you. So we’ve peeled back the interm module connections and you can actually see these are the the terminal connections on the model S. The earlier S and the 3 and Y packs there were fasteners in between every single module. Now granted that took a lot of you know human effort and this was done by a machine or you know a robot. it was more automated, but for people like us to be able to try and repair this. We already have a laser welder. We could replicate these, but we have to very carefully tear off those welds or even possibly drill them out. But also, there’s a cell right underneath it. So, when we do go to reweld it, we got to make sure we’re perfectly calibrated. Not only that, once we, you know, once we take this side out, we got to take out the other side as well. And it’s the same thing. So, even on this side, the terminal, the main positive or the main negative, they’re both the same. that does come to a fastener to the junction block in here. However, that those are the only two on the main positive and main negative. So, if you had any one of these modules fail, it’s an extremely large amount of work to just get the module out without even having to figure out how to repair it and then having a very expensive tooling to actually put it back together. So, that’s going to be a big problem we’re going to have to overcome in the future. Right now, luckily, there’s there aren’t as many failures yet. However, that’s something that we’re already working on. Like I said, we already have some of that equipment just for some of the batteries we already do. But it’s extremely difficult to be able to fine-tune the equipment to this specific task.