Elon Musk Talks Future Batteries and Compact Hatchback at European Battery Conference

Brian Wang |
November 24, 2020 |

Elon Musk spoke about EV vary and the value of batteries at a European Battery Conference. Right here is the most crucial choices from the Electrified reproduction of the interview with Elon Musk.

1: 00 Elon Musk talks about achieving automobile ranges of 600 km, 700km and 1000 km. These are 367 miles, 425 miles and 600 miles.

2: 20 Elon Musk indicates that Tesla will in the end produce a fee 50-55 cents per kilowatt hour on the cell stage. Elon Musk likely meant to deliver 50-55 per kwh. $50/kwh is in accordance with the 56% fee low cost talked about on the most fresh Tesla battery day and would half of the 2025 fee target for GM.

Elon additionally says Tesla’s most modern batteries will final for 15 years.

8: 50 Elon says the contrivance for battery cell production at Giga Berlin is 100 GWH/yr and at final 250 GWH/yr.

14: 00 Elon talks in regards to the viability of the Tesla Semi. The very first thing is to gain automobile with out the trailer to the identical energy and mass of gift heavy accountability trucks. Tesla has achieved this with the prototypes. Tesla thinks they’ll gain the cargo capacity penalty the total manner down to 1 ton or less. Tesla is then engaged on getting the vary for the heavy accountability trucks. They are confident in regards to the 800 kilometer vary and take a look at up on a route to 1000 kilometer vary.

18: 00 Tesla is engaged on normal automobile designs for Shanghai and Berlin. They are taking a undercover agent at a smaller hatchback EV in Berlin.

Warren Redlich has some feedback on the video.

SOURCES – Electrified, Warren Redlich

Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

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