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The 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 part
by zaroth 7y ago
The 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.