Makes me wonder about how Teslas will age. IIRC they have lots of small batteries placed throughout the car and I’m not sure they were designed to be replaced after wearing out.
If you want to completely replace the batteries in a Tesla you can do so in less than an hour, if I recall correctly. It doesn’t require any special equipment either.
Do you have resources on this topic?
[0] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/balancing-the-batter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Q0nNkQTC
Really about 5-6 min in.
Each module has six groups of cells in series, 74 in parallel in each group, giving a module voltage of 22.8 V.
See https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tesla-Model-S-74p6s-Batt...
As such their next gen pack is a single structural member of the car and likely will not be replaceable at all.
Tesla replaces battery packs and then sends the old one back to the factory to be refurbished, rather than junked.
As for future designs, a structural battery pack would still be replaceable. The difference is that the battery pack would supply a portion of the strength and rigidity of the frame. That doesn’t mean the car would fall apart if you removed it, however.