Munro and Associates have finally been able to safely remove the top cover of the Tesla 4680 battery pack from a Texas produced Model Y. It reveals a cement like foam. The structural strength of the battery pack is very high. The 4680 structural batteries and pack reduce weight of the vehicle by having the …
Panasonic Energy is building a pipeline of 2 terawatt-hours (TWh) of battery and raw material supplies for Tesla as part of a new mandate from the Elon Musk-led company, according to Chief Technology Officer Shoichiro Watanabe. 2 Terawatt-hours per year is enough for about 26 million electric cars per year. Panasonic will need to build …
Jordon at the Limiting Factor is a battery expert and he has had a detailed analysis of a six month old 4680 Tesla battery. It is a world class battery with an extra 10 watt hours per kilogram of energy density. It achieved with a 15% disadvantage of using a thicker shell around the battery …
Tesla’s 4860 structural battery packs are built so strong and tough that they are not designed to be repaired. The packs are so strong and durable that if there are any issues they will have to be replaced. Munro Associates perform disassembly analysis of cars. It is taking them about a week to safely take …
VW CEO Herbert Deiss said Volkswagen will pass Tesla in EV sales by 2025. Ford CEO Jim Farley says Ford will challenge Tesla globally. But Tesla doubled its US sales from the first half of 2021 in the first half of 2022. Tesla does not report official US sales numbers but monthly US sales for …
Munro Live have dissassembled the Tesla Structural Battery pack cover and car seat mountings. They show that the seat mounting has substantially fewer parts and are lighter weight. Reducing parts and lowering weight lower the cost and improve the performance of the electric car. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
We know what will happen in the next two years with electric cars because we know what electric car factories and battery factories have already been built. Electric Car Factories take time to build and scale production. Battery factories and battery supplies take time to establish. This is the same as in 1943 in WW2. …
Munro Associates has dropped the 4680 structural battery pack out of Texas Model Y. The battery pack plus the seats and carpet only weighs less than 1200 pounds. It has about 68 kwh of batteries. Munro and Associates tore apart a Rivian electric truck with 135 kwh of batteries. Just the Rivian batteries was over …
Electrek reports that they have obtained inside information for the first time that says Tesla Texas production rate reached 2000-5000 cars per week. Joe Tegtmeyer has daily drone footage of Tesla Austin. Joe says Tesla Texas production is just over 100 per day (aka under 1000 per week). If the Electrek report has any accuracy …
Sandy Munro and his team have a video showing a teardown of the Tesla Model S Plaid batteries. The Model S Plaid uses 7920 smaller 18650 battery cells. It has superior cooling and more cells in parallel. This gives the Plaid more power. The increased power requires more cooling. Sandy and Cory discuss the construction …
The United States is the largest market for stationary (battery) storage in the world. Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that annual demand for lithium-ion batteries will surpass 2.7 terawatt-hours (TWh) by 2030. 800 Gigawatts of battery storage at current prices is about $1.5 trillion. Prices will be high for the next two to three years …