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Once they depreciate enough, they'd be great sources for home backup batteries. The rest of it can go for recycling.
Absolutely, no sense wasting that lithium. Teslas can achieve salvation by being rebuilt into Priuses
I mean, it's already wired for fast charging and high output, might as well use the entire pack and as much of the controllers as we can without connecting back to HQ
I don't know about the cyber truck specifically, but there is definitely already open source hardware and firmware designed for this. It interfaces with the battery via canbus. It then presents as a standard battery to most solar inverters. I know it definitely works with standard tesla batteries.