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The robo-taxi connotation is even worse. Any robo-taxi can be programmed to drive like a grand-ma to improve battery life. The cost of a x2 battery size is eas
by yazr 7y ago
The robo-taxi connotation is even worse.
Any robo-taxi can be programmed to drive like a grand-ma to improve battery life. The cost of a x2 battery size is easier to amortize. Its life time can be managed and optimized with ML.
And yes - it can get the greatest and latest battery chemistry.
At this stage - we just dont need a "battery miracle" or a Musk-moonshot (trade-mark?) for passenger EVs.
- zaroth 7y agoThe point of the Robotaxi use case is it presents a very high duty cycle (multiple full charges per day) but with lower maximum range constraints. So it’s particularly well suited for a chemistry which provides slightly lower density trade-off for double the total lifetime cycles. Similarly for EV buses and trucks. Better chemistry at lower cost benefits passenger cars but also public transit and grid storage. It’s a multi-hundred-billion if not trillion dollar market overall. It has nothing particularly to do with “Musk-moonshot” other than Tesla hyping and accelerating the pace of EV mass adoption, which drives a virtuous cycle for battery chemistry investment.