{"id":114203,"date":"2020-10-11T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/teslas-new-structural-battery-pack-its-not-cell-to-pack-its-cell-to-body"},"modified":"2020-10-11T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:28:13","slug":"teslas-new-structural-battery-pack-its-not-cell-to-pack-its-cell-to-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/teslas-new-structural-battery-pack-its-not-cell-to-pack-its-cell-to-body","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s New Structural Battery Pack \u2014 It\u2019s Not Cell-to-Pack, It\u2019s Cell-to-Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V06GmCR1fV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s Battery Day was not just full of surprises. When you read between the slides, Tesla made a lot of product announcements, many of which are still awaiting their discovery. The one this article is about is Tesla\u2019s new battery pack.<\/p>\n<p>What most people didn\u2019t realize is that Tesla is abandoning its famous battery skateboard design. For those who didn\u2019t know, until now, Tesla\u2019s vehicles were composed of the body and a flat battery \u201cskateboard\u201d on the bottom that, as Tesla would say, are married together in the factory. We even <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V06GmCR1fV4?t=200\">witnessed the ceremony in person<\/a>. Originally, the skateboard design was developed because it provided a low center of gravity and strong safety benefits, as well as the ability to quickly swap battery packs instead of just Supercharging if Tesla went down that road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Battery Day was not just full of surprises. When you read between the slides, Tesla made a lot of product announcements, many of which are still awaiting their discovery. The one this article is about is Tesla\u2019s new battery pack. What most people didn\u2019t realize is that Tesla is abandoning its famous battery skateboard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}