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He Replaced The Battery In A Ford F-150 Lightning. Here's How Hard It Was (insideevs.com)
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In some ways, it's a lot easier than swapping an engine. In other ways, it's harder.

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[–] 47 points 1 month ago (8 children)

“Finding a single module that's unhealthy and swapping it out, though, is much harder than just replacing the entire battery.”

To me, this is the design failure. You shouldn’t have to replace the entire pack when one cell fails.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They could build them in small packs like swappable batteries in scooters. Then when there's bad individual cells you can unbolt that smaller pack and either get it replaced or pull it open and find the bad cell.

    Unfortunately, they are already engineering ICE vehicles to be so convoluted and tightly packed that a common wear item like a battery needs an hour removing shit that's in the way. They are trying to force you to go to the dealer to get it done. I think it was a Chevy truck that had the battery tucked partially under the intake and some plastic moulding under the windshield.

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