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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by omarforgotpwd on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:46PM (#20560715)
They've acquired a company called Maxwell Technologies which has some new dry electrode battery technology that should allow them to expand cell production with dramatically less Capex per unit of capacity
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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by FPGAhacker on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:54PM (#20561105)
I hadn't heard about that acquisition. I hope it they don't stop Maxwell's offerings in supercapacitors.
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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by strangemonad on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:53PM (#20561732)
They haven’t commented publicly but I’m guessing they’ll play a key role in regenerative braking for semi and pickup and also help higher powered super charging
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Re:Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage by tdalaa on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:34AM (#20564658)
On the last Tesla earnings call, they talked about an investor day early next year [1] where they'll talk in detail about their plans for terawatt-hour per year level production, directly as a result of their Maxwell acquisition.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/07/25/tesla-plans-massive-productio...

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