I don’t know if this is old news or not. That’s one big mother battery.
Perhaps a xenon arc lamp? They don’t seem to have the same heat challenges as LED based on my limited experience with my Firefoxes FF5. I think they used to have gigantic ones back in WW2 that consumed like 20 kW but made a beam 20 miles long
And another “don’t hold your breath” post:
Only 2 more years for the Panasonic batteries, if their predictions are correct.
It could be 8 years before we see anything. We get the tailings from the RC and Hobby industry anyway. That’s how 26800 came around.
IIRC the 4680 is going to be used in their Texas factory this year.
Panasonic will be supplying Tesla elsewhere.
Tesla is also looking for batteries from LG and Samsung.
Basically they want to double or triple their car production rate in the next couple years.
Yeah. Tesla is making their own special 4680 cells, while Panasonic is making them for anybody who asks and pays nicely 
Basically, Tesla will get all the cells they can get, especially with Giga Texas, Berlin, and a 2nd Giga China probably coming online.
7 watt. You cut plywood with it in a cnc machine? Usually lasers like that have a fan attached on a module
Yeah, and 7W would be so abominably dangerous to handle that I’m not even sure if it could pass regulations.
It would be illegal as a flashlight type pointing device, but no regulation if it’s used like it was intended, like a CNC laser etch and cutting tool. Efficient High Power Diode Lasers | J Tech Photonics
5-10% energy density increase from moving to the new form factor(just Panasonic cells, Tesla cells are different, and have a lot more added to it to give a 50% increase in energy density which make them superior).
Looks good enough to have 4 of them side by side in a flashlight.
A 50% increase in energy “density”? Where did you see that? If true, this new cell can power the MS18 longer than the current battery pack.
That must have come from photo shop somewhere. I thought these batteries were not going to have end plates.
Giving a look inside the new tesla battery pack with these big a*s cells.
Tesla apparently celebrated the manufacture of their millionth 4680 in January, and at least one chinese manufacturer is supposed to be in mass production this year, but I can’t find anything newer than Mar 2021 on that.
Still can’t find any for sale, and I haven’t seen any flashlights to put them in yet, either.
Can anyone mock up a size comparison picture with an 18650?
Imagine the battery compartment of a Q8 reamed out about 1mm. But longer :smiling_imp:
What is that in k1 heads?