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Tesla unveils new 4680 battery cell: bigger, 6x power, and 5x energy (electrek.co)
15 points by voxmatt 2101 days ago
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MichaelZuo 2101 days ago
A 16% range improvement is respectable. What’s more interesting is perhaps how they managed to lower the manufacturing cost.

Automated rolling with fewer steps?

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kristofferR 2101 days ago
The whole presentation is absolutely worth the watch, they go into plenty of details about how they're reducing the manufacturing cost around all aspects of the battery by a whopping 56% per kwh.
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m463 2101 days ago
I still haven't found a link
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aeternum 2101 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds
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m463 2099 days ago
thank you!
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IanDrake 2100 days ago
Can anyone explain why 5x the energy yields only 16% greater range?
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