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A big thing with the semi and the cybertruck was that Tesla was going to make it's own next gen batteries to make them possible. Smart move at the time but the
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
A big thing with the semi and the cybertruck was that Tesla was going to make it's own next gen batteries to make them possible.
Smart move at the time but they said recently that it's not actually necessary now as there's a tsunami of cheap, high performance batteries. And those batteries are readily available to (and sometimes built by) their conpetitors
- alephnerd 3y agoWhich is even sadder, because the same amount of capital deployed to projects like Cybertruck or FSD could have been deployed to further enhancing battery R&D, which they do kind of suck at. They are dependent on Panasonic for most battery chemistry work, and most of their R&D is in the Battery Software space (which is actually very important)