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Tesla didn't spearhead that though, in fact they were very late. It was initiated by German manufacturers in the early 2010's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
by lttlrck 2y ago
Tesla didn't spearhead that though, in fact they were very late. It was initiated by German manufacturers in the early 2010's.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/48-volt_electrical_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/48-volt_electrical_system
- 93po 2y agoAudi has sold less than 10k cars total with a 48v system since 2018 and isn't even double digit percent of their total US sales. MB does better with a few hundred thousand since 2018. Tesla will be shipping a couple million per year. I think it's still fair to say Tesla is spearheading the actual production of these cars, whenever it starts to happen for them.
- jwnin 2y agoHas Tesla moved to 48V in any platform beyond the Cybertruck? Last I read, they have delivered ~4000 of them, and I don't know that they've updated the manufacturing of the existing lines to 48V yet.
- 93po 2y agoTesla has said they're moving to 48v for "all future vehicles". So my assumption is whenever their existing models get a big change-up, 48v will be part of that change-up. I doubt they're going to switch e.g. Model 3 to 48v starting next year or anything unless there's some compelling cost cutting reason to do so. They're also using it for their humanoid robot