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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by gamblor956 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:35PM (#18622495)
The cells themselves are fairly standard cells. The secret sauce for Tesla has always been how they assembled them together and integrate with other components into the finished battery.

This is the same as Anker; they use the same lithium cells in their products as almost all of their competitors. Their secret sauce is assembly the cells together with other components to make the final products.

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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by mlindner on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:39PM (#18623644)
That isn't really true. The cells are not standard cells. They have their protection removed to give them more volume and also the blend of electrolytes used is also proprietary.
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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by BeeOnRope on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:00PM (#18624483)
The "standard cell" would be without protection in the first place. It's not like the batteries materialize out the ether with protection circuits which are then removed for Tesla: the basic product Panasonic sells are the bare cells.

On top of those bare cells, third parties may add protection circuits, or maybe Panasonic does it themselves in some cases.

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