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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That will never catch on for many of the same reasons that replaceable EV battery packs haven't caught on. The mechanisms to make a high current load battery be removable have to be chonky. That's extra space and weight that could be used to add more battery, or just not have that weight.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And also, other car driver will not like having a hot explosive shot right under their car and burning them instead.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, should discard the 18650s individually. Grape shot approach.