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Originally Posted by Sportstick
The steak dinner analogy is helpful. The innovation here is the use of the actual batteries as the platform rather than placing batteries on top of the platform. This should help save weight if batteries alone are less than batteries plus platform.
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Correct, the next generation will see front and rear subframe bolted directly to battery pack.
This really doubles down on battery pack + reinforcement rails taking the blunt of any collision impact, and/or battery chemistry that has no thermal runaway. It is all good if it does work.
That also may mean any side impact(even small ones) can require replacing the whole battery($$$$$), so hopefully Tesla thinks through the accessibility and serviceability aspects.