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Not a particularly informative article. China already has the most PEV's on the road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country https://en.wiki
by thinkcontext 9y ago
Not a particularly informative article.
China already has the most PEV's on the road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country
And this article projects lithium battery manufacturing capacity in 2020 with China having 62% of world capacity vs 22% for the US (with virtually all of that being Tesla's Gigafactory)
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-leading-charge-lithium-ion-megafactories/ http://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-leading-charge-lithium...
- sharun 9y agoI never understood why the Gigafactory is viable with China around. Does this have to do with location of the mines?
- swsieber 9y agoProbably? Batteries seem relatively dense compared to most products... But there's probably more at play.
- Retric 9y agoLabor is a smaller fraction of the costs to produce batteries. Consider they only have 850 workers, so even if moving to China saved 50k per worker it's not actually that valuable vs much better IP protection.
- azernik 9y agoAnd vs. low shipping costs to Tesla factories and to target markets.