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Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

last year it recalled 2,700 of its first electric vehicles because of concerns the wheels could fall off.

I set up the production line for this hub unit. This news has been really annoying because it meant we had to scramble to install a bolt press machine on this line.

[–] jadenity@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It sounds like you're implying you wouldn't have had to install it without this news breaking. Is that the case? I'm curious about this topic if you care to elaborate. What is a bolt press machine? How has this news affected you?

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

A bolt press is what it sounds like. It presses the studs into the hub unit (idk why we call studs bolts). I think we, as a company, knew about it before the news broke. We had to re-configure the line to add a machine that wasn't there originally and now we need to changeover between the bolt-type and bolt-less. This changeover is more involved than you might think since some of the components were redesigned for the bolt-type, necessitating some new tooling.

[–] not_an_egg@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I am hoping it is more of a "they should have seen this coming" kind of thing. In such a way that they should have had ample time before the line was made active to install it.