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Anybody who wants “Tesla’s” battery technology need only pick up the phone, call Panasonic, and order it.
by ebikelaw 8y ago
Anybody who wants “Tesla’s” battery technology need only pick up the phone, call Panasonic, and order it.
- ams6110 8y agoThe raw batteries yes. But didn't Tesla develop a lot of technology to manage charge/discharge, temperature, etc? Or was all that from Panasonic too?
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoThere have definitely been news articles and press releases that talk about that. But that type of media is directly related to what someone wanted the stock price to do. Know that when you see it next. Hard to say how much of that was legit. Maybe Tesla has designs that although Pana makes aren’t available to anyone else. Maybe they’re fairly normal components.
- stephengillie 8y agoToyota's been developing their own battery management technologies for 21 years. Almost half of their cars & SUVs have a hybrid variant available today, each with 1-3 kWh of NiMH battery capacity and ~200 fl-lbs of additional torque.