I'd imagine that would either change, or people would start buying up the lowest-cost EVs just to pull the battery out of them (like "shucking" external drives) and resell all the other parts.
Start with 50 km range at beginning, end up with 500 km range by the end of the year.
Would also enforce positive replacement and recycling procedures by creating a standard modular power unit.
Arguably doable, but I doubt any manufacturer or EV will ever tolerate such easy mod-ability or repair-ability. They live to destroy any attempts by the consumer knowing how to service their own property.
This is an enormously exaggerated statement, bordering on entirely false. Yes, the company has done this from time to time, including on some current Model S/X models, but the vast, vast majority of Tesla cars sold (the 3/Y) almost always have a different sized battery pack in reality, not just in software (~50kwh or ~75kwh - there is genuinely ~1/3 less cells in the 50kwh cars almost always).
The Model S/X sell in very tiny volumes, relative to the 3/Y too. There absolutely is not the same pack in "all their cars". Even the type of cells used varies between model packs, typically 2170/4680 in the 3 or Y, 18650s in the S/X. I think there are even some BYD blade batteries in some European Y variants, but I'm not as familiar with the German or China made cars.
I have no experience with electric cars, much less disassembling/repairing them.
Any chance you have a source for this info?
That sounds amazing.
Business models and soft vendor lockouts cause price drift.