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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by imglorp on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:48PM (#21724195)
Just the shorts, maybe.
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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by agumonkey on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:51PM (#21724245)
At the very beginning it was still a wild bet about timing. Nothing was aligned, so surely a lot of long were not tempted.
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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by cowmix on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:01PM (#21725417)
Tesla had to create the gigafactory. They had no choice. There was no where to buy the batteries otherwise.
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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by agumonkey on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:39PM (#21725764)
Even before the GF they were still seen as fighting a too steep battle.
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