Building Better Batteries for Electric Vehicles

08 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from Car and Driver

"Here are the factors battery engineers consider and the trade-offs vehicle teams must grapple with...Battery engineers must balance energy capacity, power delivery, cost, and volatility....Tesla pioneered the use of thousands of small-format cylindrical cells...other makers have opted for hundreds of larger cells in pouch or prismatic formats..."

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