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While Tesla is busy shouting about how awesome its new Model S is with 375 miles of range, and then under-delivering in real world testing, Our Next Energy, a startup in Southeast Michigan is retrofitting its own batteries into and older Model S and doing a road trip more than double that without charging. While this is still a proof-of-concept prototype battery, the goal is to turn this into a big business re-powering old Teslas to do big miles.
Image: Our Energy Next
While ONE, Inc. doesn’t provide any exact details about the battery, we can assume that this battery holds a whole lot more batteries than the original Tesla pack had. The largest Tesla pack right now is around 100 kWh of energy storage. If we assume a standard Model S achieves efficiency around 3.5 mi/kW in ideal conditions, that 752 mile road trip would take at least 214 kWh. So how do you fit twice as much battery in the same volume? It would seem that Our Next Energy has figured out some energy density tricks that Tesla doesn’t yet have nailed down, while also packaging things tighter and with hand-built tolerances that Tesla’s mass production factories can’t manage.
More at A Michigan Startup Retrofitted A Tesla Model S With A Battery That More Than Doubles Its Range (jalopnik.com)
Image: Our Energy Next
While ONE, Inc. doesn’t provide any exact details about the battery, we can assume that this battery holds a whole lot more batteries than the original Tesla pack had. The largest Tesla pack right now is around 100 kWh of energy storage. If we assume a standard Model S achieves efficiency around 3.5 mi/kW in ideal conditions, that 752 mile road trip would take at least 214 kWh. So how do you fit twice as much battery in the same volume? It would seem that Our Next Energy has figured out some energy density tricks that Tesla doesn’t yet have nailed down, while also packaging things tighter and with hand-built tolerances that Tesla’s mass production factories can’t manage.
More at A Michigan Startup Retrofitted A Tesla Model S With A Battery That More Than Doubles Its Range (jalopnik.com)
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