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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ... by SEJeff on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:34AM (#22348369)
The Maxwell Technologies battery technology is allegedly 10x cheaper to manufacture due to no oven or liquids and as a result, and also lighter. Elon says the "holy grail" of batteries is being able to develop an automotive grade battery at <= $100/kWh. The Maxwell tech looks to be below that, but we'll find out specifics on the upcoming Battery Investor day.
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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ... by AndrewDucker on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:00AM (#22348555)
Fingers crossed that the rumours are accurate. There are a lot of "coming soon" battery improvements that aren't nearly as impressive when (if) they finally arrive. Be lovely for one to actually live up to them.
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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ... by SEJeff on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:24AM (#22348739)
For the Tesla Semi and Cybertruck to not be huge loss leaders for Tesla, they have to have made a fundamental breakthrough in battery cost. I'm anxious to see what they come up with.
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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ... by smileysteve on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:07AM (#22348619)
Just the super capacitor allows for much better durability of all battery technology, especially in normal driving conditions.
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Re:Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota ... by SEJeff on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:23AM (#22348733)
Maxwell made ultracapacitors not supercapacitors. Elon has stated that those weren't useful at all for Tesla, but their dry battery electrode manufacturing process stands to be the holy grail. This is what I was referring to.
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