- Texas-based Re/Cell presents substitute Tesla Roadster battery packs that lower weight and improve energy.
- These substitute packs supply barely much less general capability, however the vary continues to be estimated at over 210 miles.
- The price of a brand new battery from Re/Cell is lower than what Tesla will cost you for one.
All unique Tesla Roadsters are over a decade previous now, and a few could require new battery packs. Reasonably than trying to get the growing old battery pack in your Roadster repaired, an organization is providing to recycle it and exchange it with a brand new and improved battery, which it guarantees will enhance the automotive’s efficiency via a big weight discount and energy achieve.
Re/Cell is a Texas-based firm that focuses on substitute battery packs for Tesla automobiles. They tout their substitute’s capacity to ship extra energy to enhance acceleration whereas shedding a whole lot of kilos of weight within the course of.
The bigger of the 2 Roadster batteries provided by Re/Cell has a capability of 47 kilowatt-hours, which is lower than the unique pack’s 53 kWh. Nonetheless, even with much less capability, Re/Cell says it is best to nonetheless come very near matching the unique 244 miles of vary—it estimates a variety of over 210 miles on one cost.
By putting in the pack, the Roadster additionally will get a efficiency improve. Energy goes up from the usual 288 horsepower (215 kW) to 382 hp (285 kW), and with the estimated weight financial savings of 275 kilos (125 kg), the automobile ought to really feel so much faster. The usual automotive may hit sixty from a standstill in 3.7 seconds, so the time ought to drop near the 3-second mark with the brand new battery.
Re/Cell presents a smaller battery that sheds 400 kilos (180 kg) of weight, however it has a decrease capability of 38 kWh and an estimated vary of over 180 miles. It presents a decrease energy enhance to 322 hp (240 kW).
Like with any EV, changing the battery pack is pricey however buying and selling in your Roadster’s previous battery pack will provide help to safe a credit score of as much as $11,500, which cuts the worth of the substitute batteries to $24,895 and $27,895, respectively. The corporate makes it clear on its web site that the credit score gained’t be granted if the battery pack is flawed and its cells can’t be reused. Having Tesla exchange an unique Roadster battery prices over $40,000, so the Re/Cell resolution is significantly cheaper.
In keeping with Chad Maglaque, Founder and President of Re/Cell, “Substitute packs for the Roadster are costly and overburdened, with an pointless concentrate on straight-line efficiency and vary. The main focus ought to as an alternative be on dealing with and pace, to match the racing pedigree of its world-class efficiency chassis. Briefly, it ought to be planted and nimble.” Because of its Lotus Elise bonded aluminum chassis, the Roadster already dealt with nice in manufacturing unit spec, so slicing this a lot weight and including energy ought to actually remodel the way in which it drives round a twisty highway or a observe.