This and a second assembly plant in Tennessee are a huge investment. Looks like most of the money is coming from SK Innovation, a South Korean giant that supplies EV batteries for a multitude of automotive manufacturers.
How? Why would this be any cheaper than other Panasonic, LG or Samsung plants?
The batteries may not be, but the vehicles they go into should be. And LG is going to have problems staying viable after creating multi-billion liabilities for itself all over the place.
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They killed their phone segment last year too.
Did you know that Studebaker built electric cars, when they first entered the automotive market?
I still don't get why EVs still use thousands of those small cylindrical cells. It just seems ridiculous from any perspective. They don't replace individual cells, so what's the point, other than wasting space by packing cylinders into a rectangular shape with thousands of connections. The automotive workd isn't usually into such wasteful practices.
Not sure about Ford yet. GM and Nissan use rectangular pouch. Tesla use 46mm cylindrical cells which aren't small.
it's a standard part that is cheaper and faster to make and and they need space for cooling anyway
Unfortunately, they are anything but standard. Tesla's 2170 or 4680 are not in anything else other than Tesla. GM & Nissan cells are not interchangeable.
Electric cars are better in every way except one.....That one way has been a pisser for over one hundred years. They are polishing the turd. It is still fundamentally a turd
2170 is a standard size you can buy off the shelf. 4680 was announced a year ago and afaik not really done yet making batteries by rolling stuff up and sticking it in a tube has been done for a very long time so manufacturing must be very well tuned by now
Yes, you can buy 2170, but what can you put it in?
stuff that takes 2170...
For example?
flashlights, electric bikes, electric scooters , high-end toys, cordless tools, drones etc.
Which brand use the 2170 battery?
Things Brent is nostalgic for: carbureted engines, Spanish flu, Jim Crow.
I have no idea, google it. The point is that it is a standard product you can buy off the shelf so they are obviously used by other people than Tesla
would you ask which brand uses TO-220 transistors ?
carburetor, points and distributor, gotta maximize the downtime and smell of unburnt fuel ;)
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