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Well, the article answers the question later on. Cosmin Laslau, Lux’s energy storage specialist, said there are profound differences between the past failures
by cobrausn 13y ago
Well, the article answers the question later on.
Cosmin Laslau, Lux’s energy storage specialist, said there are profound differences between the past failures and Tesla’s new lithium-ion production effort. “Most importantly, the likes of A123 built Li-ion capacity first, and then waited forlornly for demand and partnerships that never came,” he said. “Tesla has taken the opposite approach: It started by creating the demand, unearthing a niche for luxury EVs powered by massive battery packs.”
- skywhopper 13y agoThis makes sense. Domestic Li-ion manufacturing would be nice, but you won't generate more demand for batteries just by building new factories. What we need to spending money like those federal grants is on battery research. Capacity and charge time are major limiting factors on the growth of electric vehicles (not to mention the primary limiting factors in mobile computing performance as well). Finding new battery tech and improving existing tech is where the federal money should be flowing.