The Munro Reside‘s teardown of a Made-in-Texas (MIT) Tesla Mannequin Y’s structural battery pack progresses slowly and, in current days, reached one other stage.

All 4680-type cylindrical battery cells from the primary out of 4 sections have been extracted, revealing some new issues associated to the thermal programs, runaway administration, structural adhesive, terminal connectors and the BMS.

Because it seems, beneath the battery cells is a black plastic holder. An attention-grabbing factor is that the underside of the cells isn’t glued, which might be as a result of it’s used for venting.

In the meantime, the whole lot else, lined by the pink polyurethane foam, is mixed right into a single ultra-strong brick.

The cooling channels between the cells, additionally wrapped within the pink foam, needed to be destroyed when extracting battery cells if one want to keep away from damaging the cells.

The video reveals additionally a brand new view of the bus bar system and the BMS on the opposite aspect of the pack.

General, the video proves that Tesla’s structural battery pack can be an unprecedented strengthening to the car construction. The principle function of this idea is to decrease the load of the car, however there is perhaps additionally different constructive results associated to security and higher driving traits. In fact, we will neglect about repairability, however the brick can nonetheless be recycled (type of like a excessive grade ore of beneficial supplies).

The Tesla Mannequin Y with the structural battery pack (4680-type cells) is presently produced solely on the Tesla Giga Texas plant and so far as we all know, the output continues to be restricted by the supply of the cells, though ramping-up.

Sooner or later, we would see additionally different sorts of structural battery packs in Teslas, particularly if the rumors a couple of structural BYD battery (LFP) within the entry-level European Tesla Mannequin Y develop into true.

Time will inform which answer is best. The preliminary model of the MIT Tesla Mannequin Y doesn’t convey any important adjustments from the buyer perspective (vary of 279 miles EPA and worth – reportedly at $61,990).