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The most aggravating part is that they really are very good batteries but by pulling an elon and massively overpromising they're about to kill off the entire production chain, taking said very nice cells down with them since nobody wants to be associated with their shit-tier quality in every other aspect. And predictably the cells, which afaik are only available to the public via dismantled packs (and aren't available at all to industry...) go for absurd amounts ($100/cell) so there won't be anyone else actually adopting them.
God I hate tesla.
The Cybertruck is such a piece of shit.
It seems like one could just stand by the car wash and harvest plenty of these cells.
Yeah people do this, there's a huge market in dismantling "dead" packs to retrieve the healthy cells. It's where most of the aftermarket cells for automotive batteries come from.