$100 per kWh has been described as the price target for batteries to enable electric vehicles to reach a price parity with gasoline cars without subsidies. If combined with massContinue Reading
Panasonic will end its production agreement with Tesla. It will stop producing solar cells and modules at Tesla’s factory in Buffalo, New York, ending a four-year joint venture with theContinue Reading
Work on Tesla Gigafactory 4, aka Giga Berlin, in the state of Brandenburg in Germany has been halted after a ruling by the higher administrative court of the states ofContinue Reading
Tesla has long been a leader on EV batteries, for years seeming to have a significantly lower cost (cost per kWh of capacity) for batteries than others. A big partContinue Reading
Homer Electric Association (HEA) is an energy cooperative that serves the needs of some 50,000 people living on the Kenai Peninsular south of Anchorage, Alaska. It announced this week thatContinue Reading
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has released the results of its 2019 Battery Price Survey, finding that industry-weighted average battery pack prices have already fallen to $156 per kWh. ThisContinue Reading
They’re not. At least in the Model S and Model X, they’re standard 18650 cells. What *is* special is the amount of monitoring and control that is put around thoseContinue Reading
Tesla is nice to the batteries. The battery system is a well engineered system and it shows. The car will remind the driver, and in some conditions, limit the user’sContinue Reading
