Some new electric vehicles have a split battery pack to help with charging compatibility and eliminate the need for an onboard voltage booster.
All electric vehicles have big battery packs that can hold dozens of kilowatt hours of electricity, which are required to power their powerful traction motors for hundreds of miles. For some EVs, though, the battery pack isn’t a single unit, and it can be split into two or more battery arrays, usually to facilitate charging at a certain voltage. This applies to the GMC Hummer EV and the Tesla Cybertruck, whose split battery packs allow them to charge at 400 or 800 volts, respectively.
The Tesla Cybertruck adopts a similar split-pack approach to the GMC Hummer EV but in reverse. Its battery pack, which is also structural and has a capacity of a little over 122 kWh in tri-motor Cyberbeast trim, is split into four separate 200-volt modules. They are hooked up in series under normal operation since the Cybertruck is the first 800-volt Tesla EV .
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