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There could come a time in our near future when vehicles over at Honda St. Louis are powered by bundles of laptop batteries! It might be difficult for some people to imagine that laptop batteries could ever power a vehicle and all of their elaborate functions, but Tesla already has their expensive roadsters driving around for the last year without any apparent problems. Sure, the cars at Honda Dealers Kentucky will likely be a lot more affordable than the exotic roadsters that Tesla sells for $110,000 but they will probably not be as performance oriented as the roadster is either. Tesla is partnering up with BMW, Daimler, and Toyota in the upcoming years but it has not been announced if Tesla and Honda Longview will be collaborating at all.
Some of the other electric cars on the market right now such as the Nissan leaf or Chevrolet Volt get their power from lithium ion batteries. Tesla has proven that their laptop battery bundles are far more cost effective than the lithium ion battery packs plus this will have a huge impact on the laptop battery industry. The Tesla Roadster uses 6,831 laptop batteries joined together into one unit to power their engine. Tesla assures consumers that their way is more cost effective because right now it will cost around $20,000 to replace a lithium ion car battery.
Some engineers feared that hot spots could develop within the battery pack because there are so many units packed so closely together. But, Tesla’s cars have been driving around for the last year without any problems. That proof pushed Toyota to partner up with Tesla to help create their electric RAV4 that will be released in 2012. Daimler is going to put Tesla’s battery power packs into their Smart EV models as well as their Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicles over in Europe. Lastly, BMW has also created a partnership with Tesla.
