I can't help but wonder (in the sense of curiosity, and in the sense of optimism) of the impacts of Tesla's battery and battery manufacturing technology, partic

I can't help but wonder (in the sense of curiosity, and in the sense of optimism) of the impacts of Tesla's battery and battery manufacturing technology, particularly in the wake of Samsung's recent battery quality issues. AFAIK, US manufacturing is known for higher costs - and higher quality. Between all the new* uses for batteries, and the Gigafactory.... I wasn't enough of a webdev back then to being paying attention, but, does this feel like Amazon's AWS early days? * Off-peak storage for on-peak discharge isn't exactly new, but why hasn't it been as big a thing? Is it just the sexiness of Tesla causing it to make the news, finally?