what tesla's new patent can tell us about elon musk's future models - battery energy storage system
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Tesla has issued a new patent to make its batteries safer.
According to a report from Teslerati yesterday, the new patent was filed on January and released this week.
Teslerati noted that this new energy storage system introduced some systems to ensure that a damaged battery does not affect the rest of the batteries.
Tesla's new battery will achieve this by using the new interconnect to prevent the gas released by one battery from affecting other batteries, according to the company's patent documents, there is also a new "material used to indicate the discharge of one or more battery failures ".
This new material is basically deliberately weakened. When a lithium-
The ion battery fails and starts to overheat, and the electrolyte liquid inside begins to evaporate-
Expand the battery with high pressure gas.
These new, more fragile parts of Tesla's proposed energy storage system will allow a failed battery to drain gas without squeezing its adjacent batteries and overheating.
The new energy storage system protects the battery through a series of interconnect.
According to the patent, the system may also include the function of "such as a cold plate or heat pipe to remove the heat generated by the battery during the operation of the energy storage system (
Or during these overheating failures, to avoid total overheating
Heat out of control).
How a broken battery affects those around Tesla, thanks in part to Tesla's safety record
Known as "frunks", the storage is placed in the front of the car, not the internal combustion engine.
Last year, for example, Model X received the highest rating ever from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"For death or serious injury of S or X, you really have-
"It's hard to do this," CEO Elon Musk said last year . ".
"Model S and X have a very long fold area, two to three times longer than conventional cars, which have a large engine steel block.
"Nevertheless, as Musk sometimes points out, Tesla's car safety problems tend to get a disproportional media coverage than its peers who have gone up in gasoline prices.
A recent report by the National Transportation Security Commission in June lasted several days in the media.
Tesla's patent application explains that a battery can sometimes trigger a chain reaction.
"The energy storage system currently disclosed includes" packaging "of multiple batteries stacked together ".
The document reads: "These batteries and other components in the package generate heat during operation, whether in the charging process of storing energy or in the discharge process of consuming energy.
"When the batteries fail, they usually release the heat.
These gases may affect the integrity of other cells in the package and may cause substantial damage to non-functional cells.
"In order for Tesla to achieve its plan to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, it needs to make sure that the battery is safer and stronger at the same time.