500 Wh/kg Silicon Anode Amprius Battery for Drones and Electric Passenger Planes

Amprius Technologies’ batteries deliver up to double the energy density over standard lithium-ion batteries. This means the battery cells provide more energy and power with much less weight and volume. Amprius will have a quarterly investor call at 5 pm EST, 2pm PST today. TODAY, Amprius Technologies, Inc. (“Amprius” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AMPX), a …

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Low Cost Lithium Sulfur Battery From Zeta Energy

Zeta Energy makes lithium sulfur batteries. Zeta Energy was interviewed by car teardown analysis expert, Sandy Munro. Zeta Energy is based in Houston, Texas. Zeta Energy was founded in 2014 to develop and commercialize safe rechargeable batteries that are higher performing, lower cost and sustainably manufactured. Zeta has filed more than thirty patents on its …

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Tesla Cybertruck Will Be Dominant Work Truck and a Cult Car

Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley has written that he thinks the Tesla Cybertruck could end up being a “Cult” Car with only 50,000 to 100,000 per year production volumes. This is despite over 1.5 million reserved Cybertrucks. Nextbigfuture has calculated that a Tesla Cybertruck will be able to beat the range of a gas-powered Ford …

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Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor Day Expectations

Limiting Factory Youtuber, Jordan Giesige, analyzes key factors for Tesla Master Plan Part 3 and Investor day. Elon Musk and Tesla have previously described getting to 20 Terawatt hours per year and a total of 300 Terawatt hours of batteries to transition energy and transportation to electricity. This means 14 million tons of lithium carbonate …

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Tesla Orders After Deep Price Cuts in 2023 Are Double Production Levels $TSLA

Tesla has released its fourth quarter earnings. Tesla had their earnings call. Highlights of the call: Year-to-date order demand is over double production levels. This is due to increased demand from the price cuts. Tesla is splitting the Nevada Panasonic battery tax credits. Assuming 50-50 split this would be about $150m per quarter. This will …

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Tesla Will Have Abundant 4680 Batteries in a Few Years

Elon Musk told his Tesla Nevada team that the new $3.6 billion Semi truck and 4680 factory will start with a 100 GWh/year production target but in the long term will expand to 500 GWh/year. This will be part of Tesla producting 1000-3000 GWh/year of 4680 batteries in total from Austin, Berlin, Shanghai and Nevada. …

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Elon Said the New 4680 Factory Could Reach 500 GWh/Year of Batteries

Elon Musk said that Tesla plans to produce at least 100 GWH/year 4680 batteries from the new Nevada factory and this could reach 500 GWH/year. This will be part of Tesla expanding 4680 battery production to 1000-3000 GWH/year. This will be in addition to batteries from other suppliers like CATL. The 100 GWh/year is just …

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Tesla Building a New 100 GWh 4680 Battery and Semi Truck Factories

Tesla will be investing over $3.6 billion more to continue growing Gigafactory Nevada, adding 3,000 new team members and two new factories: a 100 GWh 4680 cell factory (with capacity to produce enough batteries for 1.5 million light-duty vehicles annually) and the first high-volume Semi factory. Semi is the fully electric combination truck, with 500 …

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