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Tesla Model 3 Battery Capacity Shipments In Q3 2018 Will Exceed All Non-Tesla EVs Combined

7 years ago Kyle Field 0 Comments

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel regularly talk about how they are constantly on the lookout for the next big thing in energy storage. To date, the 2170 cells that go into Tesla’s current energy storage products and the Model 3 appear to be the best of breed. That’s a conditional statement that necessarily balances availability of raw materials, battery cost, energy density, power density, and a number of other factors, but it is clear that Tesla is the world’s leader in lithium-ion battery production for electric cars in a number of measurable ways.

17 More Tesla Shareholder Meeting Highlights

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

I just published 11 highlights from yesterday’s 2018 Tesla shareholder meeting. I cut off right around the start of the Q&A session — tweets plus live Q&A. This article continues that initial list to include 17 more highlights. In this case, we have no charts from Tesla, but the highlights may be even more interesting. As usual, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared more details than we could have hoped for, supplemented here and there by CTO JB Straubel, CFO Deepak Ahuja, and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen.

Tesla Model 3 Could Be #10 Best Selling Car In USA This Month

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

Amidst admission that this year has delivered a “hellish” several months for Elon Musk and Tesla factory workers, the star Tesla CEO and co-founder also dropped a figure that it seems half the world has been waiting to hear. It’s a figure that will perhaps seem too old to rely on in just one week, and epically out of date in a month or two, but it’s the kind of figure that could shift a few billion or so here or there in the investment and trading community.