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It doesn’t always mean something is broken right now—it can just be the car’s estimate.","sourceStartTime":5039.0,"sourceEndTime":5051.7}},{"id":494730,"startTime":5051.7,"endTime":5063.3,"type":"term","title":"battery cooling","url":"/glossary/battery-cooling","quote":"...what does that cool cool in it to like cool the batteries like Tesla's do yeah you just like top it's just like water yeah they don't replace it...","canonicalId":"term:battery-cooling","priority":0.55,"confidence":0.85,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Battery cooling is the system that keeps an EV’s battery within a safe temperature range for performance and longevity. 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