some_guyRoughly 5 Percent Of All Cybertrucks Are For Sale Online Right Now
I wonder how expensive it would be to scrap pretty much everything but the battery and chassis and then build a decent vehicle around it. I’d rather have a smaller EV than that, but I bet the range would be pretty great on that with a lighter build that isn’t fugly and stupid and prone to failures.
RhaedasVery. It's a lot more complicated than just a battery, it's a complex management system that, despite the reputation of Tesla for manufacturing details and their CEO for...well, himself, is very impressive. You'd need to keep or reinvent most of that to avoid cell failures (and fire).
If you're really serious about a small DIY EV, look into the kits that are available to modify existing ICEs into EVs. Not quite the power level, but they do work pretty well if you don't mind the complexity of the work in strip down and rebuild. And often times they do use used/refurbished Tesla batteries in their makeup.
Why not just keep all that hardware? At the end of the day, it all communicates over a CAN bus or equivalent, and there are a bunch of DIY projects to effectively communicate with the various ECUs. Thank god Tesla is yet to go the way of Apple in locking down hardware against “unauthorized” modifications. I think worst case is they cut you out of supercharging.
I think the more challenging bit would be separating the battery from the vehicle. If it’s built anything like the “structural pack” in the Y, the only way to remove it is with a hacksaw.