Tesla Gives Update On Its Game-Changing 4680 Battery Cell

23 Apr 2023 | Abstracted from Electrek

Tesla has "established a cost-down roadmap through 2026 across five areas of effort...cell design, anode and cathode materials, the structural pack concept, and the cell factory itself...in production with not only the first generation tabless cell we unveiled on Battery Day but a second more manufacturable version in Texas today...On cathode production, we are 50% equipment and 75% utilities installed at our new cathode building in Austin...goal to begin dry and wet commissioning this quarter...target to produce first material before the end of the year."

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