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Originally Posted by whynot
Fair bet that battery cells for a Ford will be incompatible with Holden Toyota/Nissan/Tesla, so you will need a selection of them lying around as well.
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Actually, batteries are made by third parties rather than the manufacturer themselves.
Most use the 18650 battery though chemistry is a little different. Typically, you have Tesla using different chemistry but all the others use similar/same chemistry so Toyota/Nissan/BMW/Ford, etc are all interchangeable. You could even run the different chemistry cells but you'd have to have the software ready to handle it (bit like when we changed from NiCd to NiMH for domestic batteries; you have to use the correct charger for the battery).
Tesla are the ones driving development of better battery tech and have moved to the 2170 battery.