Tesla’s Four Million Mile Battery

Tesla’s vision is simply batteries everywhere, for everything, all the time. And that means Tesla is going to need to produce a lot of batteries.

So, in short, Master Plan, Part Deux is:

Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage

Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments

Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning

Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it

A hundred years from now, we’ll all look back and think “duh.” Obviously scale was key. Tesla is catalyzing and capitalizing on what will be the largest economic and technology shift of our lifetimes. This is bigger than IT, tech, AI, the Internet, blockchains, or any other buzzword. Everything runs on electricity, and Tesla is going to radically a... See more

The reemergence of the electric car in the twenty-first century can nevertheless be traced back to the era of the oil crisis. In 1972 Stanley Whittingham, a researcher at the oil company Exxon, was investigating a new battery design based on lithium. The lightest metal on the periodic table of elements, lithium can store fifteen times as much elect

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