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Re:Toyota Finally Has the Power in Electric Cars by gamblor956 on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:55PM (#19000437)
It will not be a competitive advantage for Tesla and the low-cobalt cells will be available to Toyota.

Panasonic makes and designs the cells (the part with the cobalt), Tesla just arranges those cells into a battery (adds control systems, cooling, framing etc.)

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Re:Toyota Finally Has the Power in Electric Cars by rcMgD2BwE72F on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:22PM (#19001457)
> It will not be a competitive advantage for Tesla and the low-cobalt cells will be available to Toyota.

source?

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