Think I had more work when I changed the battery on my waterproof Samsung smartphone.

 

Thanks for posting the pics.

 

New battery modules need to be rebalanced after replacement, or else:

Battery issues? [cells out of balance]

So, I’m finding that using 80% of my battery (100 to 20%) I went 137 miles (3.3 m/kWh). 65mph, ac on. I looked at my Car Scan an noted that, After some recharging) there was a difference in voltage and state of charge in one cell. Cell 90 showed 52% charge, which was three save on all of the...

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I like a bit of rear-biased weight balancing in any car, so hopefully that is maintained/accomplished.

 

My car is just now on the workshop for this module / battery swap. They said if more than two modules needs to be replaced they will change the whole battery pack. They reserved three to four days for the job, will see the result in friday! Nice to have these picutures about this! They also told that the cell balancing is taking a lot of time in this job.

Edit: Just week before, my car lost propulsion for a moment, but recovered after a while. Now when it was very clear (had to pull over to a bus stop), I'am quite sure this happened once before, just a lot mildly.

 

That shop looks like a hospital operating room.

 

In Europe we do operations and car repairs in the same rooms due to lack of space.👨‍⚕️👨‍🔧

 

That's cool to see thanks - looks so easy to work on (provided you have the battery lift equipment)... So glad it's not a "structural" battery pack with all the cells glued together... or it would be there 3-4 weeks!

 

It is a structural element to the vehicle. If someone gets in there while the battery is removed, the vehicle can fold up. There are warnings against this very thing.

 

Didn’t mean to start a row. 😳
I think this may be down to semantics. Our battery cells go into a box that is part of the structure of the vehicle while Tesla uses the glued cells to become the structure. Both are structural elements but one would be more of a structural battery. And the other could be a structural battery container. Ours could have no cells in it and still have structure. Tesla’s can’t. This is one of those, I don’t know why you would, but you could, kind of things. Lol.

 

Cool. Im starting to think there is something wrong with my new gtx.

Picked it up 20 feb this year. At 100% from my dealer i got 167km range down to 12% when turtlemode kicks in and the car get so slow it's unbearable. Where i live there is ice and snow right now and around -10 celsius. Running on studded wintertires.

What winter range do you get?

 

I'd take it in and have it tested... that seems really low! My 2021 (still on original software that burns a lot of power heating the battery in the cold) can predict a total estimated range of around 340-350km (converting from miles) in weather around -10 c.

Of course, if you've been driving it on the ice rally, that could explain it I've seen what you Swedes get up to in the cold weather with your EVs:

 

Seems like a bad cell in the battery pack. Calculate your usable kWh in the battery from distance and average consumption. The 80 kWh battery pack with bad cell usually holds only 60 kWh (instead of 74 kWh net).

 

Thank you for sharing! Very interesting to see how they constructed it. It's like a big tray held on by bolts (you can see them when you look at the undercarriage of your car). Also looks like a HUGE gasket running along the perimeter (all that blue stuff) and maybe gaskets or o-rings for each of the bolts.

Look at how much heavy equipment you need to service this thing! Well outside the capabilities of most home mechanics. That said, I'm sure there's some nut who will try and drop that battery tray onto a set of 4 Harbor Freight jack stands in his driveway.

 

If you want to see more: 2021 Volkswagen ID.4: Battery Teardown - YouTubewww.youtube.com › watch