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EV PHEV Institute - R&D workshop for tools and repair solutions - Reverse engineering
Republic of Croatia
Joined April 2019
Which used EV to buy? A Beginner’s Guide!. My favorite: @LucidMotors @tesla @BMW @ZeekrGlobal @NIOGlobal @Rivian @BYDCompany . We avoid: Mercedes, Stellantis. Full list here: You requested the list, and here’s our take: We’ll provide insights on what we.
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🇺🇸Why is Tesla the king of the road? Because it is the only vehicle that enters our garage doors with an average of over 300,000 km and the only vehicle on which we have documented that the ORIGINAL batteries from the first installation exceed 600,000 km. All other vehicles
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Why is Mercedes abandoning the EV platform? Because they don't know how to make it, like the rest of the EU industry. The EQV, EQC, and EQB have catastrophically poor reliability with ZF motors, where the motor burns out at just 20,000 km, coolant leaks damage the windings, and
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Hybrid battery for 31000€ and 1.7kWh? Is hybrid new dieselgate2? Range Rover battery pack wins Guinness World Record, it costs “more than complete” car and it is primary reason why people hate electrification and why EV sales are declining, because Hybrids are tied to EV
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Again, the "worst of both worlds" applies to the 2018 BMW G30 eDrive Hybrid, whose complete battery pack is so worn out that repair isn't feasible without replacing all modules. This vehicle has only covered 150,000 km, yet it requires a new 9 kWh battery pack costing €11,000.
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I am at @automechanika_ Frankfurt, My final impression for the last few years is that the Chinese are not just making a product, but a fundamental statement with a message together with a product. They are making better and more reliable EVs. And the message is, "Sorry Germany,
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Tesla with 2.000.000 million kilometers by EV Clinic Large Drive Unit remanufacturing and improvements stopped sequence of repeated failures every 100k km. He changed 14 motors, and now this one already made more than 400.000km in total. Inspection showed minor coolant leak and
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Did you know? The media persistently lies to you with misinformation and deception. First, for 10 years, they pushed the narrative that “batteries can’t be repaired,” then that “a battery costs more than the car,” and now the propaganda has evolved into claims like “hybrids are
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Do you know that average German ICE car has more expensive and un-repairable powertrain parts than any EV on the market? And not all parts were mentioned for Audi CRT Diesel moneypit powertrain. ****partslist extracted from OEM EPC catalog
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Do you know that Tesla saves and conserves your money even when it completes its 12 years of life on the road by continuing its new cycle in a stationary solar system. A battery that is no longer suitable for a vehicle is still fully functional for other “second life”
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Mercedes Hybrid - Unsustainable trash that once again proves hybrids are the worst of both worlds. A small 6kWh battery with single cell amperages during use drastically higher than on EVs, such that even a good choice of thermal cooling (water cooling in this case) doesn’t help
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Again Hybrid, "the worst of both worlds," Porsche Panamera 2014 with 190,000 km and a faulty 9 kWh battery costing 17,800€, which despite active heating and cooling with coolant, is not only more expensive and smaller than an EV battery but also unavailable for purchase. Nissan
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A hybrid is the worst of both worlds, where two complicated systems are designed to last only until the warranty expires. Underdesigned battery systems, which burn through 2000 cycles within 50,000 km, cause total losses to the poorer part of the population that buys used,
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If you’re driving a STELLANTIS, may God be with you!! PART 2#.DS3 eTense with 23,000 km, warranty abused and 20 months of repair agony. The level of poor engineering in these vehicles borders on madness. This group is putting junk on wheels across diesel, petrol, and hybrid
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The Model 3 SR Highland is the new “Volks” vehicle, not a VW —only the people don’t know it yet!. “EVs are too expensive,” “When prices drop i will buy it!”, “The battery costs more than a diesel engine,” “Out of reach for the common person,” “The battery is more expensive than
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BMW X5 F15 40e - Another dead Hybrid with 140,000 km.The battery system is worn out, with 1-2 cells completely damaged. The only reliable solution in such cases is to replace all modules, ensuring the next 100,000 km before a new cell replacement is required. However, this is
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Situation thise days:.German engineering = bad.USA engineering = good.China engineering = good
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If you drive a STELLANTIS vehicle, may God help you! PART 3..Ever wondered why sales of EU-manufactured EVs are declining in Europe while global EV sales, particularly in China and the U.S., are booming? It’s because these vehicles are complex and unreliable designed to push
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It’s time for expansion and new adventures because we’ve mastered @Tesla , Mercedes, and others. BMW, although unable to produce a reliable and high-quality ICE or hybrid for the past 15 years, has on the other hand developed very sustainable, repairable, and high-quality EV
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Hybrids are the worst of the both worlds, and if they are “engineered” and made in EU, you are looking into bankruptcy usually at 100k. In the past four months, we’ve received a record number of BMW hybrid repair requests where 8kwh battery pack is more expensive than 82kwh Tesla
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Change multiple cells and make it sustainable? If something seems impossible, it will likely be “Made in EV Clinic.” For 12 years, the prevailing narrative was that opening a Model S module to replace single or multiple cells without destroying it was not possible. We finally
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RENAULT … you are fired!!!.Unstable grid conditions are the most common cause of OBC failure, especially on the Renault ZOE with the Q drive system. A case from Serbia a few months ago remained unresolved because an explosion destroyed a significant part of the EMI filter PCB.
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ANALYSIS AND MYTHBUSTING – What’s cheaper to maintain? Battery, motor, or transmission replacement costs?.Short and clear: incompetent journalists and mainstream media have been misleading you for years, and this should have been their job. In the Excel sheet we are making
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EV Clinic has evolved from a one-person passion project into an R&D lab with a dedicated team of 10. Yes, 10! Phase 2 of EVC’s expansion is now underway, focusing on complete in-house electronics and software development, eliminating the need for time-consuming outsourcing. Our
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Tesla against everyone, making stuff more reliable by overdesigning and robust powertrains. @alex_avoigt @Tesla
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Which battery is the best!? A question even the industry cannot definitively answer, and the answer lies at the end of its life cycle. Without sampling failures, creating solutions for a large number of battery systems, and reaching the final destination, i.e., recycling, it is
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“Assembled in Croatia” - Porsche has finally transitioned to cylindrical cells, which are domestically produced in Germany by Varta under the codename V4Drive. The rest of the battery system is then assembled, tested and aproved in Zagreb, Jankomir, as part of Rimac Automobili
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82% battery degradation. not on a Tesla, not even on a Nissan Leaf, but on a Toyota Auris. A textbook example of a supposedly never-opened 1kWh (2200€) battery with 246,000 km and an 82% degradation, where over half of the battery system is permanently damaged due to
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First ever failed Model 3 LFP pack inside our research facility! Full of mud and water resist to die at 250,000km!
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Electricity in a Petrol Jerrycan? Who said that you “cant bring electricity on the highway to fill it up” and who said that “defect batteries pollute enviroment” when we made powerbank from it to materialise a argument which fossilheadbully usually mention and which we made 4
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2015 Volvo V60 PHEV - 3700€ per kWh - Buy a New Hybrid Battery or a Whole Tesla Long Range? Dilema. For those of you who’ve been waiting, here it is—a first hybrid with over 500,000 km on the odometer, arriving on a trailer. What to say, bravo to Volvo and LG Chem team, one
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Model 3 / Y - Why It’s Crucial to Address Battery Issues Immediately.The Model 3 and Model Y vehicles feature one of the most compact and technologically advanced battery systems. In most cases, these systems are repairable at the component level, including the replacement of one
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Tesla’s 100kWh – Achilles’ Heel Uncovered. I can’t believe it, but the 100 kWh pack, refined from previous generations, has failed on me. The issue isn’t with the cells, but with the aluminum wire bonding—a problem we’ve seen for over 20 years in fossil-fueled vehicles. TEMIC
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When you plan pessimistically but it turns out the opposite, like the EU legacy plans to fight against electrification, which ended up being completely the opposite, a debacle. Two years ago, we had a plan to buy a faulty EV and restore everything, the motor and battery, for
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Hyundai Kona 2019 - Defective ball bearings after 180,000 km (serviced once at 50,000km) due to a lack of cooling for the rotor bearings, leading to overheating and damage. The motor makes a whirring noise during acceleration and regenerative braking. The motor is the same as in
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After 350,000 km, it is time to service the Model S/X battery packs with 14 modules (not 16). Among these, the 75 kWh packs are known to achieve the highest mileage without failure. While we don’t often revisit topics, the 75 kWh pack is worth mentioning so that owners can take
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Made in EV Clinic, Made in Croatia. When a product doesn't exist, we must create it ourselves. For instance, the Tesla Large Drive Unit 36x67x8 Rotor Gearbox Side Seal was unavailable for purchase from Tesla or any other retailer. We developed this seal in-house because if it
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Renault Twingo – Unjustified total damage and unjustified demonizied public opinin for battery faults by mainstream media!.€20,000 Total Loss Due to Battery System? An interesting case where a Twingo was written off due to damage to the battery “housing,” with the cost of
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Absolutely Unbelievable: A Showcase of Automotive Manufacturers’ Incompetence and Technological Stagnation. These outcomes clearly highlight how some manufacturers are completely inept and utterly lacking in technological orientation. Once hubs of development and innovation, they
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We are preparing a comprehensive analysis document on EV, ICE, and Hybrid powertrain comparison prices and costs, unlike anything done before. It will cover topics such as reliability, kWh pricing, cell types, right-to-repair cost, RMI access, warranty abuse, and more—mythbusting
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100kWh Battery upgrade for Tesla Model X, EVC Explorer precheck and Benchtest.
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Considering that the reaction of diesel fanatics to posts about OEM prices for catalog parts has been akin to us airing their dirty laundry, it’s time for the next version of official EU Hybrid and EV prices. The prices are up-to-date as of today, for new parts, or remanufactured
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18,000€ Hybrid .The first-generation hybrid battery for the Mercedes W212 and W221 was designed to be unrepairable, encased in a welded stainless steel housing, effectively “burying” the owner in costs when it fails. A new battery costs around €18,000, while refurbished ones
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"Huston, we have a problem" with BMW i3.EU MUST STOP DESIGNING AND PRODUCING UNREPAIRABLE AND UNSUSTAINABLE POWERTRAINS!!!.After 8 months, we have not been able to resolve the issue with the restoration of the PMSM electric motor for a BMW i3 with 183,000 km on the odometer. The
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Twingo ZE R240 – The line between sustainability and unsustainability is very thin, and when it comes to designing utterly stupid, unsustainable, expensive, and complex maintenance systems, European engineers and manufacturers are absolute global leaders—as evident in diesel
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Project ETERNAL is under development, reviving old EV to keep it on the road for next 10 years. Reducing weight and increasing range with latest technology cells recycled from new EV and Hybrids. #Sustainability
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EV CLINIC designed "Holy Grail" Tesla Large Drive Unit Repair kit is ready! Road tested without failing for almost 500,000km. The Tesla first-generation Large Drive Unit (LDU) is one of the most complex and notoriously challenging components to repair. More complex than battery
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Damn, I couldn’t resist! A year ago, I upgraded the S85 to a 100 kWh battery. Now, I’ve upgraded it again with a tuned Performance Sport LDU. It has a graphite seal, nano-coated rotor, ceramic bearing and tuned stator with original rotor cooling system. 315 kW of unlimited power
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Nissan e-Power - Unsustainable trash that once again proves hybrids are the worst of both worlds. After following a few "internal" tips and monitoring some Nissan social groups, we have noticed that the "self-charging perpetual hybrid" frequently breaks down. This el. motor
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Making Kangoo ZE Immortal - Project "Baguette".YOUTUBE: DID YOU KNOW? One of the most alarming reports we've received is that battery repair or repurposing new battery technology for older EVs is entirely prohibited by the French government. Replacing
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“Electricity isn’t for long trips” or some other empty cliché is just an excuse for the weak. This year (winter/summer), I made trips to Sweden, Berlin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. I never arrived late, never ran out of charge, never turned off the heating, and never got
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453EQ , Twingo and Zoe with R240 is designed to be unsustainable and fails every 50k km (sometimes even 10k), we cant change design but we can your money from being spent on unsustainable solutions. More problematic is that they dont use repairable OBC but non-commercial
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Driving 50,000 km without oil and without the electric motor differential seizing up doesn’t even happen in Marvel movies. Our work is incredibly interesting because we enjoy investigating causes and effects, creating solutions and tools. But without real samples, not just
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We just can’t seem to find a worthy dinosaur-powered drivetrain that’s both stronger and cheaper than an EV drivetrain (except for the expensive Porsche Taycan). The cliché “batteries are more expensive” doesn’t hold water. Over 100,000 km, one can consume a minimum of €3,700
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"Toyota's hybrid batteries never break down."."Don't listen to EV Clinic, they find fault with everything."."Batteries last over 500,000 km in all Toyotas."."The warranty is 10 years" (they forget to mention 180k km). "They are some amateurs.".The owners didnt learned to hear
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When your timing chain breaks for the third time at 150k, and a new ICE engine at the BMW dealership costs more than a Tesla battery!
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Oh no, it's just getting interesting. As inquiries come in, we'll do a series of cross-reference comparisons. Why? Because no one has done it yet, it's hidden like torn underwear. Lexus is the flagship of the hybrid world, what Tesla established in the EV world as an example and
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The Tesla MCU1 with Tegra board is outdated but still operational on the roads, with some units offline and lacking Tesla support. This is particularly problematic for U.S. imports in Europe, where owners face various issues. The only solution is an invasive method to extract
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How many 453EQ electric Smart must explode or catch fire before OEM makes recall on DCDC which costs 7500€ to the end user? What is exact number of incidents applicable for recall? 1000-2000? 100000? Or EU must first recall anything on Tesla or BYD?. Supplier: Delta.OEM: Daimler
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Is there any greater dopamine rush than designing, reverse engineering, repairing, making a solution, and finally testing a component, approving it for assembly, and finaly taking it for a road test? Our EVC Explorer has saved us countless hours of labor and thousands of euros by
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Battery production is something what we do only to keep great EV’s like Smart 451ED on the road when old battery pack gets damaged with deep discharge. New pouch cells are not available to purchase but we recycle almost new Samsung SDI Modules from Ford hybrid to build new 18kWh
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Dear @MercedesBenz , You and Your products are not sustainable nor reliable. It is time to wakeup, if you dont know how to make good car anymore, we will show you how other do it. We have invassion of Mercedes EV’s and Hybrids, and we cant repair all of them
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When electric motor doesnt have Rotor cooling and ballbearing cooling, then bearing overheating is sudden and fatal for rotor and stator. This Renault Zoe 2015 with Q210 powertrain came too late for motor reman. It is a write off at 150k km. New OEM Motor: 5000€.Used Ebay:
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There will be signs in Zagreb when 6 million EU hybrids go out of warranty—1.7 seconds to 100 km/h signs, accompanied by white smoke from the tires. Why? Because commercial hybrids feature some of the most expensive powertrains, both in terms of cost per kW of power and per kWh
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@smoking_hobbit Only missinformed people believe in eFuel and Hydrogen agenda, it is just a delaying defeat.
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@AlexJPantos It seems it is a culprit of all issues. @Porsche made notorious mistake using pouch cells. If i am a board member; I would fire complete management office responsible for battery design = idiots ruined porsche ev future.
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Who says we hate ICE cars? There's nothing sweeter than starting a Monday with 200 emails about faulty fossil cars and a pile of defective transmissions. As long as there's this fossil-based semi-product, we'll never go bankrupt—it's the most profitable industry where it’s
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First they said that a single cell couldn't be changed, then they said that the Tesla module couldn't be opened, and then that multiple cells in the module couldn't be changed either. Every time something "CAN'T BE DONE," we come up with some kind of "Mythbuster," as well as a
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When it comes to recycling and sustainable reuse, the EV Clinic Lab is always active. Every challenge is an opportunity for us to provide solutions – not just one, but multiple solutions within just a few days. We have completed our EVC BMS - Beta Battery Management System, which
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The EVC Tesla LDU "Holy Grail" repair kit is almost ready, with one of its key components for achieving a quiet and smooth driving experience after repair being the motor mount bushing. Tesla's limited supply restricts orders to just 2 pieces at €160 + tax each, creating a
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Battery defect BMS_U029 and BMS_F107 and BMS_u018 troubleshooting like a boss?! Now easier than ever with our inhouse developed EVC Explorer diagnostic tool for Tesla S/X to detect which cell group is in defect, which BMB contoler is rusty, which sense wire is loose or which cell
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100kWh battery upgrade limited-time offer for Model S and X. An unplanned arrival means we now have one unit available for limited time. This offer is open to all customers who inquired about it in the last 12 months. Can fit all S/X 75 85 90 Tesla vehicles. Capacity: Neto above
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Worldwide shipping of LDU repair kits is in full swing, reaching the USA, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Poland, and more. Inspired by previous feedback from our friends in Poland, we added rubber O-rings and seals to the ‘Holy Grail’ LDU kit, fulfilling their request to add missing
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If it is a challenge, it is a business opportunity. Our R&D capability is scaling and accelerating, primarily to optimize our workshop load, simplify repair procedures, and reduce wasted time on repetitive tasks in every process. We decided we couldn’t wait for others to catch
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@alex_avoigt DID YOU KNOW? For example, to set up a third-party service to maintain hydrogen vehicles, among a pile of necessary permits, you would also need military authorization to use highly expensive hydrogen storage equipment during servicing. Additionally, you would require special.
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Some manufacturers have counters that deactivate a healthy battery pack/ICE engine, for hybrids or EVs. With each ignition cycle counter decrease or due to any firmware flaw, the drivetrain gets locked, necessitating the recycling of the battery and the installation of a new one.
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DID YOU KNOW? Electric Smart EQ453 can be recipe for bankruptcy because complete powertrain is unsustainable, where OBC DCDC Inverter EMI filter is inside electric motor, if one component fails, they change complete powertrain which can cost 6000€. We encountered this problem 5
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Do you throw EV if battery dies? We don’t, we build new battery pack with 2021 recycled OEM cells into second EV purpose like this one for 2014 Electric Smart 451 ED which is reincarnated with Ford Samsung SDI cells from Ford Hybrid. New pack is 50kg lighter and range improved to
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VIDEO: How to Save Money on Tesla LDU Repairs and Delay Failures .Did you know that Hansjörg’s @gem8mingen Tesla P90, with 1,800,000 km on the clock, went through 13 electric motors before the owner came to Croatia’s EV CLINIC? There, we implemented all
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That single moment of BMS_u029 happiness when you finally trace and find single cell “weak short”.
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The only hybrid that embodies logic, sustainability, redundancy, and long-term reliability is the REX system, Range Extender, where the primary drive is electric with a smaller (or larger) battery, and the ICE motor assists with heavier loads, protects the battery from high
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One and the only, legend @KroegerOve in EV Clinic visit. We finally met. 😎 Stay tuned for new surprise.
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EVC Development - Renault Inverter 5AQ EVC CloneBox.(no, we never sleep, we develop to save your money).YT Subscribe: Designed and manufactured at EV Clinic, the 5AQ EVC CloneBox is engineered to optimize data recovery and repair of electric powertrains.
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Tesla Tegra MCU1 Nvidia eMMC reading without soldering, root access patching and ethernet unlock calculation. Everybody remembers infamous “blackscreen” and days when aftermarket market boomed. This was the backbone of our 3rd party support for Tesla owners saving at least 200
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Hey @MercedesBenz , and hey @NHTSAgov @NHTSArecalls , why nobody is investigating implemented movie watching during driving in all MB multimedia systems, distracting driver and killing other traffic participants. Function inside HEAD UNIT (HU) is easy accessible and can be
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@MdeZegher Someone from SuC team (Italy) realy failed and completely ignored SuC deployement in Croatia, Slovenia. The SuC Croatia team doesnt exists, it is controled by the SuC team in Italy and the shortage of Superchargers in Croatia is likely politically motivated to divert tourists.
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Are you aware of how critical the HVAC system is inside an EV? We have numerous examples where different HV components were damaged due to a failed HVAC system. In many cases, owners ignored the service warnings, and the vehicle's system didn't display alerts about the severity
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