Jrinne
January 30, 2021, 5:24pm
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My understanding, and don’t take my word for it because I haven’t done a lot of research, is that they have prototype batteries and expect to have the first factory finished in 2024. And we need to be clear. Musk is also marketing his own brand of battery vaporware, the 4860 cell. The 4860 is driving the whoopla surrounding Tesla’s stock price (I believe). While the Solid state battery is a technical revolution, the 4860 cell is half-a-dozen technical revolutions rolled into one implementation. And Musk’s style is to declare that the revolutions(s) are in the bag when they aren’t. A good example is Full Self Drive (FSD) which was supposed to be done several years ago. Tesla isn’t the inventor of the tabless cell concept or most of the ideas presented on Battery Day, there are many companies working on these issues. He is the only one out there marketing himself as the leader and that the problem is solved. That is how you attract the big bucks.
Thank you!!!
Just to be clear your professional experience is in AI (including developing neural-networks) or were you a materials scientist/engineer?
I took a materials science course at UC Berkeley—best use of my time ever. Not that it is helping be with any of this;-) You sound a lot like my professor is why I ask (a good thing).