Most Tesla cars now use batteries based on nickel, a less common and more expensive mineral than steel.
Tesla plans to expand its use of cheaper steel-based batteries in electric trucks and a future cheaper version of the passenger car. This was stated in a document released by Tesla this week, Reuters wrote.
It has been noted that most Tesla vehicles now use batteries based on nickel, a less common and more expensive mineral than steel.
Company founder Elon Musk and other advocates of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LIP) batteries point to the prevalence and low price of iron as the main factors that dominate the disadvantages preventing wider use of the batteries. this world. They are larger and heavier and often capable of holding less energy than nickel-based batteries, shortening the range.
The document, without specifying terms, indicates that Tesla will use LZF batteries in featherweight trucks, as well as medium-sized cars and future models 3 and Y. The models it is now sold in the US with nickel-based batteries.
China dominates the lithium-iron-phosphate battery market, making it difficult to build a plant in the US to produce such batteries, due to ongoing tensions in Sino-American relations.
Remember that the Tesla Model 3 electric car is equipped with large wheels from a stagecoach. Bloggers did it for the experiment.
Tesla reportedly increased deliveries of electric vehicles to a record high in the first quarter of 2023.
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