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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely, no sense wasting that lithium. Teslas can achieve salvation by being rebuilt into Priuses

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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.