{"id":520338,"date":"2022-09-07T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520338"},"modified":"2022-09-07T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:02:14","slug":"inside-teslas-mission-to-keep-elon-musks-battery-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/inside-teslas-mission-to-keep-elon-musks-battery-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Tesla&#8217;s mission to keep Elon Musk&#8217;s battery promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The secret behind Elon Musk&#8217;s goal of selling 20 million Tesla&#8217;s a year by 2030 lies in its pioneering battery technology.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that by using bigger cells and a new process to dry-coat electrodes, Tesla could halve the cost of a Model Y battery, saving more than 8 per cent of the car&#8217;s US starting price, battery experts with ties to the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that it&#8217;s only halfway there, according to 12 experts close to Tesla or familiar with its new technology. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the dry-coating technique used to produce the bigger cells in Tesla&#8217;s 4680 battery is so new and unproven the company is having trouble scaling up manufacturing to the point where the big cost savings kick in, the experts told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret behind Elon Musk&#8217;s goal of selling 20 million Tesla&#8217;s a year by 2030 lies in its pioneering battery technology. The good news is that by using bigger cells and a new process to dry-coat electrodes, Tesla could halve the cost of a Model Y battery, saving more than 8 per cent of the car&#8217;s US starting price, battery experts with ties to the company said. The bad news is that it&#8217;s only halfway there, according to 12 experts close to Tesla or familiar with its new technology. That&#8217;s because the dry-coating technique used to produce the bigger cells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}