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Originally Posted by soundman98
I'm more concerned about all the other metals that go into ex's. Copper ain't getting cheaper to name one.
There's been some headway on graphene batteries, just not at the scale for automotive use
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Tesla mentions cobalt, nickel and iron in the supercut of the battery day. They made a strong plan for the anode and cathode materials. They will be harvesting their own products and bringing materials to market in a much more efficient way right here in America.
Elon Musk was asked at one point how many gigafactories are needed to electrify the world. His answer was logarithmic when he said, ‘not ten and not a thousand’...’one hundred to two hundred.’ That was old. The new form factor of his factories means it is closer to the ten mark like when he said, “tera is the new giga.” The new factories will have a smaller footprint, but produce 10x the product or something.