WADE MODE will let Cybertruck drive through water by raising ride height and pressurizing battery 🤿 💦

[rizvend]

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DIaper?

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[Bakeram1]

How to do you "pressurize the battery" without an air compressor?

There is an onboard compressor to run the suspension. I assume they can use pressurized air from there.

 

[JWass]

How to do you "pressurize the battery" without an air compressor?

They run coolant through the battery to regulate the temp. Maybe they can just pressurize that and the positive pressure (greater) than the pressure of the water being exerted, from the outside, on the seals will keep the water out.

 

[Deleted member 17810]

DIaper?

I'm not the first nor the only one to refer to the cladding on the rear bumper as that.

 

[wanders]

What's the propulsion mechanism gonna be like?

Attaching a boat motor to the bed. I've had this idea for two years now lol

 

[Rutrow]

Pressurizing the battery pack seems like introducing complexity. If pressure can be added, it stands to reason that the battery has to have a port to add pressure via. If it were a sealed battery pack there'd be no need for a valve that would be susceptible to failure.

Dive watches, cameras, computers, etc. maintain their water resistance best by being totally sealed off, not by having a Rube Goldbergian mechanism for fluctuating the internal pressure.

 

[SlegMD]

OK! Who goes first!?

 

[Seth Watson]

Maybe something hanging off the tailgate? I'm thinking it will require another kit from the accessory group...

Probably more like this:

 

[FutureBoy]

What are you, 13?

Um.... Only 13 year olds are still triggered by the word diaper. The rest of us have lived life, experienced diapers (both providing, and possibly even using). Nothing weird about the word diaper. The sensitivity to the word went out with little kid potty humor.

So are you 13? Or do you just have a diaper fetish?

 

[tidmutt]

Pressurizing the battery pack seems like introducing complexity. If pressure can be added, it stands to reason that the battery has to have a port to add pressure via. If it were a sealed battery pack there'd be no need for a valve that would be susceptible to failure.

Dive watches, cameras, computers, etc. maintain their water resistance best by being totally sealed off, not by having a Rube Goldbergian mechanism for fluctuating the internal pressure.

Unless that complexity was already present for another more important reason.

 

[Prime8]

The BYD suv that floats says it can go 3kmph just by spinning it's wheels. Not gonna be wakeboarding behind that.
https://www.inverse.com/tech/byd-yanwang-u8-hybrid-suv-can-float-water

 

[FutureBoy]

What the eff are you talking about? Good lord. Get a life.

 

[mhaze]

How to do you "pressurize the battery" without an air compressor?

One could partially close the outflow valve for the battery coolant. That would leave the pump pushing coolant into a fixed volume.

 

[tmeyer3]

I'm unsure what the battery pressurizing note is all about either. Unless the truck is going at least 10' under, I don't understand the need to increase the pressure inside a sealed battery and cooling loop. But I'm not an amphibious automotive engineer, so there's that ?

 

[JBee]

Pressurizing the battery pack seems like introducing complexity. If pressure can be added, it stands to reason that the battery has to have a port to add pressure via. If it were a sealed battery pack there'd be no need for a valve that would be susceptible to failure.

Dive watches, cameras, computers, etc. maintain their water resistance best by being totally sealed off, not by having a Rube Goldbergian mechanism for fluctuating the internal pressure.

The problem is the size of the battery pack, and the likelihood, through thermal expansion of such large pieces, of having a leak. A lot easier to pressurize it, and in the process bilge the accumulated water. This might also keep it from sinking, even though the pack is negatively buoyant by itself.

They might also air purge other parts of the vehicle to keep it afloat.

Given the extent they are doing air purging now, it's highly likely they are getting serious about extended periods of in water use, in boat mode. So pretty exciting!

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