The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) has again raised its forecast for new energy passenger car sales for 2021 as the industry grows rapidly. The 2021 forecast for new energy passenger car wholesale sales was raised to 2.4 million units which is up from a forecast of 2 million in February and 2.2 million in …
Tesla Model S Plaid delivery event highlights and summary is below. The refreshed Model S has a drag coefficient of 0.208. Model S Drag Coefficient at 0.208 Cd. That's better than the Taycan's 0.22 Cd pic.twitter.com/mlC7IGSJAv — Rohit (@rohit000000000) June 11, 2021 Elon Musk drove the Model S Plaid around a track and then onto …
The Limiting Factor indicates that Tesla is getting more range and performance from existing battery form factors. This means improvements from 4680 and structural battery packs will provide even more cost, weight and performance improvements. It also means that Tesla will be able to get more from existing production lines. The Tesla Model S Plaid …
Jordan Giesige has researched all aspects of the Tesla Battery Day announcements. Jordan’s analysis is that the Kato Road 4680 battery plant should be achieving a 5 GWh per year production level. This means about 0.4 GWh per month of 4680 batteries. This would be enough for 4000 cars with 100 kWh packs. This would …
The largest battery maker in the world, CATL, is planning an 80 GWH/year plant near Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. The new plant would be able to make 80 gigawatt-hours of battery cells a year. CATL currently makes 69.1GWh and already has 77.5GWh under construction. CATL said that it is in talks with Tesla about more collaboration …
Andrej Karpathy, Director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, says that the cameras and AI used by Tesla can process visual driving data ten times faster than humans. Yes vision is extremely information rich. 8X surround 1.2MP @ 36Hz is a lot of constraints on state of the world, can be processed at …
Tesla electric vehicles are not competing in the below $40,000 price range. Tesla Model 3 starts at $41,000 and the Tesla Model Y starts at $51,000. The Tesla Model S starts at $70,000. The Tesla Model X starts at $80,000. Subsidies typically bring the price of electric vehicles down by $3000-14000 depending upon the country. …
Plug in electric vehicles and full battery electric vehicle sales were up over 40% from last year in terms of percentage of overall car sales. 2021 PEV (plug-in electric) share was 5.7% (3.7% BEV) compared to PEV at 4% of total car sales in April 2020. PEV registrations were up 249% last month, to some …
Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will live chat with Warren Redlich on Youtube tomorrow at 5pm PST. Warren and I will talk about Tesla and perhaps some other topics. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News …
The Boring Company Vegas Loop capacity testing exceeded 4400 passengers per hour on Tuesday. The LVCVA said it would conduct capacity tests for the loop ahead of World of Concrete, the convention center’s first major trade show since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The almost $50 million loop connects the three different halls of the convention …
Sandy Munro talked about Tesla’s key near term technology. He indicates that Panasonic shifting to provide 4680 batteries will make it far faster to ramp 4680. Once any chemistry issues are worked out then changing an existing 2170 battery production line to 4680 will take about two months. The front and rear gigacasting and the …
