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1. Yes it would be. You can't manufacture graphene (most likely) batteries in a factory made for lithium batteries. 2. Sure, the cars have better range and pro
by chx 11y ago
1. Yes it would be. You can't manufacture graphene (most likely) batteries in a factory made for lithium batteries.
2. Sure, the cars have better range and probably Tesla can sell more cars but that's capital intensive and they just pissed away 15% of their market cap. Not great capital wise.
3. It hurts them because, as I mentioned, they spent a fortune and they might as well have lit a fire with the money. At least they'd be warm for a bit... Investors typically are not happy when a company makes a bad bet to the tune of a couple billion bucks.
4. How long have you been reading about graphene batteries? What about the company I mentioned which promises them this year?
- aerovistae 11y agoI just don't have the time to explain to everyone on the internet why they're wrong. I'm sorry :/
- emcq 11y agoThe original point was that there is risk. Its very unreasonable to claim that the risk is zero. Perhaps you don't believe this is the primary risk to Tesla, although it seems more like you think Tesla is unfailable, but your counterpoints aren't particularly convincing. New battery technology is very expensive to research and create in mass production, but we have a long road of potential improvements to catch up with the energy densities of most other fuels and research has batteries that improve upon lithium ion.