Tesla to make the cheapest EV batteries with billions in annual government subsidies

[Redaktion]

After mastering the EV production cost efficiency puzzle and raking in record profits per vehicle as a result, Tesla is best positioned to do the same for EV batteries, claim analysts. Its capital expenditures for manufacturing 4680 cells is apparently up to 70% less than those of the leading Korean or even Chinese battery makers.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-to-make-the-cheapest-EV-batteries-with-billions-in-annual-government-subsidies.691355.0.html

[Hunter2020]

Title should have been rewritten to Tesla to make UNsafest EV batteries with billions in annual government subsidies.  Nobody can beat CATL Sodium-ion batteries.  I mean how can you expect salt to catch on fire?

[ricegf]

Title should have been rewritten to Tesla to make UNsafest EV batteries with billions in annual government subsidies.

Current lithium battery-based vehicles catch fire at a rate only 1/10th that of gasoline vehicles, and a fire spreads much slower to allow more time for passengers to escape. But some people are never satisfied, right?

Happily, the solid-state batteries in pre-production are even less likely to burn even with much higher energy density. Win, win,... win!