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As long as there's an easy way to test the individual 18650s to identify which ones are unhealthy, this is brilliant.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
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micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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I like the idea... I think it's a terrible waste to have to toss things just because of a pooched battery pack that normally can't be easily replaced. This would certainly help keep things from the landfills.
I hope it can happen with other things too eventually... like cordless tools. I have several drills that, while the drills themselves are in great shape, the batteries are cooked and in a lot of cases it's cheaper to just buy a new drill than to replace the battery packs.
i love the idea, but everything i know tells me that replacing one cell in a series parallel array with a fresh one is a bad idea.
over it's life, a battery's capacity and internal resistance change, so it's not only important to match batteries in a pack by exact type, but also condition. otherwise, the cells won't charge / discharge evenly, leading to overdischarge / overcharge, or, if managed by the bms, drastically reduced performance (basically all cells are limited to the worst one's performance).
still, the concept is fantastic, so i hope they found a way to work around this issue!