Currently, the two motor Tesla Cybertruck costs $79,990 and has a range of 325 miles. Tesla is developing its own iron LFP 4680 battery. Iron LFP batteries are about 20-30% lower cost than nickel batteries, but are less energy dense. Lower cost LFP4680 would be about $70-80 per kWh instead of $100 per kWh for …
Tesla’s patent 2025/015194 A1,(“Cathode Powder and Processes),” describes a method for producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials for the Tesla 4680 batteries. It has simplified mixing, granulation, and heating steps. This patent, spanning over 100 pages, was published recently. @Tesla's LFP manufacturing patent, WO2025015194A1 is just published. 👀🔥 pic.twitter.com/3PoF1blnfa — SETI Park (@seti_park) January …
Tesla has published a new 100 page patent that describes an innovation for making cathode powder with wet and dry processes. Drew Banglino, x-Tesla executive, and Jordan Giesege, The Limiting Factor, tell us how this will be a path to make the lowest cost iron LFP batteries than untariffed LFP from China. The new technology …
CATL has new rectangular LFP batteries. The LFP EV battery price will be less than $56 per kWh within six months. It is a bigger rectangular battery with each one being like six Tesla 4680 batteries. The LFP battery price in China is currently $70 per kWh. China’s EV makers (CATL, BYD) are targeting two …
CATL claims that a new ‘Kirin battery’ with Cell to Pack (CTP) technology will deliver 13% more power than Tesla 4680 batteries with the same cell chemistry and battery pack size. The market launch is planned for April, 2022. The Shanghai Tesla Model 3 MIC should get its LFP battery packs upgraded to this new …
BYD has increased its 2022 battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) car production target from 1.2 million to 1.5 million units. BYD’s old target was about half BEV and half hybrid (600K each). I would expect the new target to be 800K BEV and 700K PHEV. In terms of battery electric cars, Tesla is …
China Lithium Battery Technology (CALB) has started building the thrid phase of an LFP lithium battery factory with manufacturing capacity of 40GWh and supporting assembly lines for battery modules and battery packs. For the first stage, CALB plans to invest 5 billion yuan ($786.275 million) in 10GWh manufacturing facilities. The first phase will output a …