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Netizens exposed that the Tesla Model Y is testing a structural battery pack

Recently, some foreign netizens broke the news that he used a drone to photograph the Tesla Model Y testing the structural battery pack at the Texas Gigafactory.

Netizens exposed that the Tesla Model Y is testing a structural battery pack

Foreign netizen Joe Tegtmeyer recently used a drone to photograph the Texas Gigafactory complex when he found a Model Y test body unloaded from a trailer, which is particularly special.

It is immediately noted from aerial footage that this Model Y test body does not have a floor system, and the car's floor system appears to be assigned to a component that has not yet been seen, which is believed to mean that the test body recently delivered to the Texas Gigafactory was designed with a structural battery pack.

Tesla's structural battery packs, as the name suggests, are built on the structural platform of the vehicle. According to Tesla's presentation at Battery Day in September 2020, structural batteries are designed to strengthen the vehicle's body and chassis while increasing range and reducing production costs. Elon Musk likened Tesla's structural batteries to space inside the wings of an airplane as a space to store fuel.

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