Well with a piece of PVC pipe or a cardboard or some homemade thing we could use these cells in current 26650 lights that accept 26700 cells.will fit in 26650 charging slots as well.
Would be nice is a major manufacturer would develop the 26650 and we probably could have 7000mah 20+amp cells
Thanks for the review again HKJ your reviews are priceless and help save from purchasing some lemons for sure. Much appreciated the time out of your life you take for all the reviews
Thanks for the test. It’s not bad, but I can’t get excited until the price comes down substantially. At $10 each, it’d make big battery packs more expensive. Iirc, Tesla claimed 30% lower cost with their 21-70, which I’m hoping is per cell and that’d it’d be possible to buy them for less than $4 each in bulk. Even though this doesn’t put out a huge amount of current, it’d be good enough in a big battery pack, at least for electric bicycles.
Of course they can. 18650’s have been doing it for years. Anyone can build a fast bike. Affording it is a different matter. Building my own packs should save me about a thousand dollars…if I don’t burn my home down.
Great!! This is an interesting direction for industrial cylindrical Li-Ion cells.
The ready access to these cells outside of industry buyers make me think, it’s possible this 20700 cell will be short lived as they standardize on 21700 going forward, although they can be considered roughly equivalent. It could also be though that since they are new there is not yet the industry demand to take up all production.
My cells are similarly wrapped and coded with a couple differences. The 4 digit code following the cell part number on mine is 6612; likely the date code. The code laser etched on the negative terminal is similar except the first digit preceding the U is separated from the group by the width of a couple of digits on a couple of them. This code is slightly different on each of my cells except 2 have the same code on the bottom. This leads me to believe this may code the specific factory, lot, and manufacturing machine specifics.
It could go either way, or neither way. It largely depends on Tesla’s ability to meet their expectations. Several Gigafactories around the globe, and Tesla cars and Powerwalls in most new middle class houses would sway things heavily towards the 21-70. Occasionally sales will slow, and I have to think that they’ll open up sales of their batteries to secondary customers.
I thought they already started producing the 21-70, but that was just for testing, and even that only started last month. Today they started producing 21-70’s that’ll end up with customers.
It appears these bartteries have a temperature coefficient device. I have had three of them die when testing. I got full discharge at 20A continuous current from 2 batteries. One died during 30A continuous current discharge, 119.3° C temperature, and two died during 40A continuous discharge, one at 105.8 and one at 97.8. But another gave a full discharge at 30A continuous current reaching 120.2°. The cut off temperature seems to vary from battery to battery.