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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by revelation on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:59AM (#13558823)
The production cars are still hundreds of small batteries in parallel. I wonder if with Model 3 they have the scale to move away from the standard form factors.
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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by bb611 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:14AM (#13559879)
Yup, the current battery uses thousands of 18650s, but they developed a more 'economically efficient' 2170 cell for the model 3 - https://qz.com/879121/teslas-tsla-cheaper-more-powerful-2170...
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