A youtube video claimed that it was started by tesmanian.com, but I can’t find anything on there. The exact wording was ’ increase cell diameter to 1.57” ’.
On the cooling side, the new cells are supposed to have significantly lower internal resistance due to a new electrode manufacturing process, and so would need less cooling.
There is no talk about abandoning the partnership with Panasonic. If tesla wants to scale up production of the current model 3, new model Y, soon to come semi truck and cyber truck as well as the stationary storage division per plan they need to increase their battery supply by orders of magnitude. Since that kind of supply doesn’t exist, they are attempting to start their own production in addition to what they can source from Panasonic, Samsung SDI, LG chem and CATL.
Well, at least it explains Teslas recent insane stock movement where it went from overpriced at $300 a share to EXTREMELY overpriced at $900 a share (currently $741 a share still valuing the company significantly more than Ford and GM). Beyond electric cars, capable scaled up storage batteries could and likely would be used by everyone in the world to store wind and solar power in an attempt to move away from carbon sources.
If they exist, these cells will not be going to the consumer market. It’s possible, but not guaranteed that other manufacturers will copy the form factor.
So don’t worry for now
Wow I wish this is true. Im imagining the idea of someone manufacturing a light with four of these in series. You can run 10k+ lumens for practically unlimited runtime!
Even the idea of a ROT66, D18, BLF LT1 with USB-C charge and powerbank would be real sweet
