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So you are basically saying they should make every car significantly worse in terms of weight and driving performance. Despite 95% or more will never swap out the battery.

A fully integrated cell-to-pack architecture where the pack is fully integrated and structural is clearly the best solution for a car.

Otherwise you are just having millions of car driving around far heavier and less efficient then they should be.

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> So you are basically saying they should make every car significantly worse in terms of weight and driving performance

This assumes it would be impossible for telsa engineers to design around modular cells. And I don't think that is a fair assessment

There is a fundamental problem that these are highly complex highly integrated system. The cell is totally structural and glued together in a sandwich that is literally as hard as a brick.

You simply can not replace individual cells or individual models.

The level of replacement is a the whole battery pack. Anything else makes very little sense.

Your model is basically, putting a box in a box in box and then adding a huge amount of complexity on all layers to make it possible to cheaply disassembly. You are gone have a far heavier car, that is far, far more complex to build and far more prone to actually breaking.

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