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Re:Rivian S-1 by theduder99 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @09:01AM (#28728241)
welcome to hackernews. also why don't the car battery manufacturers go the lifepo4/graphite route?
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Re:Rivian S-1 by mastax on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:11AM (#28728698)
They do. Everyone in China is using them. Tesla is starting to use them outside of China as well.
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Re:Rivian S-1 by Tuna-Fish on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:07AM (#28728665)
Other materials are mildly better and not too scarce. Tesla is moving some of it's production to LFP, but that's probably mostly because they want to scale up production faster than nickel mining can scale.
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