Dang, you have to buy a new model car to get the new battery?? So it seems to say
Yes, this is only for the Tesla owners or new buyers.
The EV has a long way to go to be in a mass market. I would expect too that fossil fuel providers will keep their prices low until they exhaust all easily extracted fossil fuels.
This will be a challenge to the philosophy of the free market system. The diverse ideals of generating profit vs. the need to control environment degradation.
Not really, consumers will go electric as the economics and availability improve. I was impressed at 400k pre orders before the car even exists, so was Tesla, the did not expect such a huge pent up demand.
If no one wanted it then there would be a collective yawn at the Bolt instead of the fawning interest.
I don’t know if anyone caught this:
I took this to mean each individual cell. As it is stated it would be the battery pack on a whole that is bigger.
As a side note the GM EV car is named the Volt; is the name being used in the last few comments has been ‘Bolt’. Is this a tongue in cheek expression?
They are going to 21700 cells, this has been extensively covered including on BLF
Two different cars, the volt is a battery/gas hybrid, first 60 miles (new version) is electric then switches to gas engine
Bolt is pure EV
Bort
Thank you!
I am getting so jaded. 
The article, and everybody else uses the words “cell” and “battery” as though they are the same thing.
Even though they always use the word battery, meaning cell, I understood they were going to use a size larger than the current 18650 cell. My hope was that a better 18650 would come out of the giga factory.
As the cell size goes up, the surface to volume ratio goes down. As that number goes down, so does the ability to shed heat.
On the other hand, I think, as the size goes up the ability to pack more volume in a given space goes down. I suppose there would be an optimal size and I guess 21700 is closer to it than 18650.
I am a bit long in the tooth and many might already know these figures on the Tesla S:
Li-ion Panasonic 18650A NCA cells
60, 85, 85-performance kWh 85-kWh = 16 modules with 6 groups in series (402 volts, 7104 cells) 60-kWh = 14 modules (352 volts, 6216 cells) Groups contain 74 cells.
I think cost per cell might affect the equation as well. It might take fewer cells to have the same energy even though they take up more space.
+1
If battery energy could be as efficient while reducing both weight and reduced area needed to house them, it would be another big step in the evolution of EV.
Bear in mind that the battery only lasts so long, and the range graduallly reduces, so after a given mileage you will have to buy a new battery, which is expensive. And your calculation is based on current electricity costs and taxation. Any significant increase in electric vehicle usage would lead to a change in road vehicle taxation, without any doubt, especially since we will not have to follow regulations from Brussels.
Tesla has an eight year and unlimited distance on their batteries; I would think in the future that will increase.
I read about someone who drive over 100k and battery range had decreased by about 3%, so they have thought ahead and designed the car accordingly
You call that a battery? This is a battery:
But its range and passenger capacity is extremely poor for the purposes of transportation
Those are the one’s that are supposed to go BOOM!
Already under discussion is the secondary market for used batteries, much as we reuse laptop and power pack pull only for aftermarket power wall use where capacity is less of an issue.
That’s going to be awesome. And I read that recycling can claim back virtually all the lithium. nice.