Gadgetory

Tesla has made a power bank for your phone and it's rather interesting designed by Tesla of course this normally costs about forty five US dollars but it's completely sold out at the moment it's interesting that inside the box this Tesla charger comes with very specific instruction to not disassemble or repair it so I think it's time to disassemble and repair it let's get started this particular charger comes with the Lightning port for iPhones and a detachable microUSB for all those Android phones from 2015 maybe Tesla will ship a USBC donal for their next batch of chargers for the more modern Android phones the black surface is made from plastic and the silver protrusion mimicking a cylindrical battery is made from a thin metals getting inside this thing is rather difficult and actually involved a breaking some of the plastics it's not designed to be opened up once inside we get our first glimpse of the 18 650 lithium-ion cell with a 3300 milliamp capacity this is the same exact battery found inside many of the Model S and Model X Tesla vehicles except for you know there's thousands of batteries inside those cars and this phone charger just has one two screws hold in place both circuit boards on either side of the battery and the whole contraption can pull away from inside the plastic housing the neon green battery itself is soldered on to the main board with leads headed to each of the terminals on each side of the battery the copper wire strung up the side is probably for the temperature sensor these 18 650 batteries are actually extremely common and can be purchased in bulk from Amazon or Ebay for really cheap so from a repairability standpoint if you can solder this thing can be replaced I'll plug it into a power source and we could see the green LED at the end start flashing indicating that the lithium-ion battery is charging I'll plug that microUSB port into one of my Nokia phones and we have power it's definitely not the biggest power bank and probably more of a collector's item than anything but it's still cool that the same technology charging your cell phone is powering some of the coolest and fastest cars on the planet I'll go ahead and plop the singular cell back into the plastic housing to restore the plastic housing back to the perfect condition I'd need some glue since the plastic tabs holding this closed weren't meant to be opened and broke off during my intrusion I'll toss a link in the description for these Tesla power banks when they become available again would you ever get one or would you rather save your money and just buy the whole car I'm still trying to get my hands on a real test letter teardown I'll keep you updated on Twitter and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around