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Re:Firefighters bring large battery fire near Geelong under ... by Reason077 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:10AM (#28048691)
I'd agree that LFP is becoming conventional in stationary storage, but it's still relatively unusual in passenger vehicles outside of China. As far as I know, Tesla is unique amongst "western" automakers in using LFP cells in some of its cars.
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Re:Firefighters bring large battery fire near Geelong under ... by zrobotics on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:23AM (#28048825)
The Wheego LIFE [0] was built with a lithium iron phosphate battery back in 2011. The body shell was Chinese, but the electric part of the car was built in the US. Apparently it was a crap car, but tesla definitely isn't the first US company to produce a car with lithium iron batteries.

That said, chemistry has come a long ways, the Wheego is more like a hotrodded golf cart than an actual car. That was the norm for 2011 though.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2012/03/14/can-tiny-...

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