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Elon Musk aims to revolutionise battery technology
- ksec 6y agoI was hoping to read an announcement for Battery Day. I hope that promise wont be like his Robo Taxi and L5 AV.
- jeffhiggins 6y ago“He claims his Hyperloop concept could revolutionise public transport.” Hyperloop is private transport.
- nickik 6y agoÄh no. Is a bus operate by a private person not a public transport system. Of course it is.
- asdfman123 6y agoRandom question: is Hyperloop all just a ruse so Elon can develop expertise in boring through martial soil and creating vacuum sealed tubes?
- cma 6y agoFirst they need to build that promised rollercoaster in Freemont
- ectospheno 6y agoWhile I also hope for a revolutionary leap in battery technology one should remember that Elon says a log of things and sincerely means all of them until he is sued at which point he was just exercising his First Amendment right to say whatever he wants.
- rvz 6y agoIf there's an article about Elon Musk's achievements and contributions I'd like to read about, it certainly won't be from the BBC, who's technical content still glosses over details and is stuck in the 1990s.
- DanCarvajal 6y ago> The first of these was announced just last week when the Chinese battery-maker that supplies most of the major car makers, including Tesla, revealed it had produced the first "million mile battery". > Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) says its new battery is capable of powering a vehicle for more than a million miles (1.2 million, to be precise - or 1.9 million km) over a 16-year lifespan. I keep being told Tesla has some big tech advantage, but here they are buying the same batteries as everyone else.
- sojournerc 6y agoI think Tesla has more mature battery management software that prolongs the life of the battery but that may no longer be true or exclusive.
- ksec 6y agoThey did, Tesla was the first to invest into Gigantic battery production and winning with economy of scale and vertical integration. That was until China has more electric vehicles sold than rest of the world combined. They made 95% of all electric buses in the world. So the economy of scale somewhat shifted. And the rest comes with continual investment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_industry_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_industry_in_C...
- duncanawoods 6y agoYou seem to have missed the bit about Panasonic building all the cells.
- nickik 6y agoThis is mostly assumptions, we don't know if any of this is true. Tesla has some news about batteries and they are working on something, if it just that the buy the same batteries as everybody else it would be pretty weak. I don't think that's it.
- antisthenes 6y agoSo far the biggest revolution to batteries seems to have been economies of scale. Sure, there are minor improvements to chemistry as well, but AFAIK, nothing on the order of price reduction that happened in the last decade.