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Tesla’s Four Million Mile Battery
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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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.
Kyle Samani • Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani
Tesla estimates the global transition to sustainable energy requires 300TWh of battery capacity, 1000x the current installed capacity
Chris Anderson • Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview
Here’s what that means in practical terms. According to a 2017 study by two mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, an electric cargo truck capable of going 600 miles on a single charge would need so many batteries that it would have to carry 25 percent less cargo.13 And a truck with a 900-mile range is out of the question: It would nee
... See moreBill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Batteries are getting better, but it’s hard to see how they’ll ever close this gap. If we’re lucky, they may become up to three times as energy dense as they are now, in which case they would still be 12 times less energy dense than gas or jet fuel.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Tesla’s cell constraints are likely to continue over the medium term. Because its most profitable use of cells is likely to be in electric vehicles, we do not expect Tesla’s energy storage business to drive enterprise value meaningfully during the next five years.