Elon Musk warns new Tesla battery tech gained’t attain mass manufacturing till 2022

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No matter is unveiled throughout Tesla’s Battery Day occasion on Tuesday gained’t enter “critical high-volume manufacturing” till 2022, the corporate’s CEO Elon Musk has cautioned on Twitter. The time-scale means the expertise will primarily impression Tesla’s Semi, Cybertruck, and Roadster tasks, the CEO mentioned, including that the corporate will proceed to purchase third-party battery cells even when Tesla decides to make its personal.

Musk’s feedback counsel that no matter is proven at Tuesday’s occasion might be on the prototype stage, ruling out the brand new battery expertise showing imminently in Tesla’s present mass-market automobiles just like the Mannequin three or Mannequin Y. Musk factors in direction of the “excessive issue” in scaling new expertise as being in charge, noting that making “the…

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