I have written about this for some years already, but having data backup always helps. The China Insurance Research Institute (CIRI) investigated the battery pack part-to-whole ratio of 59 battery ...

Kia EV9 high-voltage battery pack teardown by Munro & Associates reveals engineers likely thought about repairability when designing it. There are two access plates underneath for serviceable items.

Toyota is due to receive $4.5 million in federal funding for research into automating the teardown and rebuilding of used electric vehicle battery packs for eventual reuse. The funding comes from the ...

As I mentioned in my previous text in the series "Repairability and Replacement of Battery Packs," three battery electric vehicle (BEV) makers have cared to answer my questions about the subject. The ...

Ford is looking at ways to make electric vehicle battery packs easier to repair—especially as their cooling systems become more advanced—a patent filing indicates. The document, which was published by ...

Recirculate, a European Union-funded project based in Finland, says it is developing a “state-of-the-art” electric vehicle (EV) battery disassembly system using artificial intelligence (AI) and ...

Munro Live has never done a teardown of a Tesla Model X... until now! After removing and analyzing a Model X battery pack for a client project, associate engineer Julian Aytes shares some of his ...

Wisconsin-based BCA Industries says its LithiBatt division offers equipment to process electric vehicle battery packs “without requiring disassembly or discharge.” “The hydro-nitrogen ‘large pack’ ...

Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable battery packs have put powerful cordless tools in the palms of our ...

A teardown of the Tesla Cybertruck showed that the battery pack is somehow half empty, which the chief engineer confirmed, and we are quite confused about it. At 123 kWh, the Cybertruck has the ...