Tesla battery day bingo

Sep 17, 2020 12:01 PM ET
  • Tesla battery day is following week. Earlier this year, Elon Musk informed analysts that what he needed to claim "will certainly blow your mind. It strikes my mind." Here's a listing of battery exaggeration as well as terms you're bound to listen to at the occasion.
Tesla battery day bingo
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When it pertains to battery breakthroughs, I depend on the guidance of Thomas Edison and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, that in a 2014 conference call, said the following:

" My leading suggestions truly for any person who states they've got some development battery innovation is please send us a sample cell. Do not send us PowerPoint, just send us one cell that works with all suitable caveats. That figure out the nonsense and the cases that aren't in fact true."

He continued by supplying his ideas on the "battery breakthrough du jour;" as he explained it:

" Send us a sample. Or if you do not trust us, send it to an independent laboratory where the specifications can be confirmed. Otherwise, STFU. Every little thing works with PowerPoint. If you like, I'll offer you a PowerPoint presentation concerning teleportation to the Andromeda Galaxy."

Tesla has actually released a substantial quantity of batteries over the last decade and that puts it in a special position to evaluate the progression of lithium-ion technology and production.

Bingo card

Long expected as well as already once-delayed, Tesla battery day is next week, Sept. 22. Try To Find Elon Musk to utilize a few of the adhering to battery-day terms as he charts out the future of Tesla's powertrains and also stationary storage space performance. Get your bingo cards all set.

  • Exponential: a Musk fave
  • Advancement: legally mandated to utilize this word
  • Million-mile battery: There were reports that CATL as well as Tesla's Dahn team were working with a million-mile chemistry
  • Plaid Model S with brand-new powertrain, larger battery, three electric motors as well as a revamped framework. Faster than the Ludicrous variation.
  • Anode, cathode designs
  • " It will blow your mind"
  • Battery administration system related to powertrain or otherwise
  • Solid-state batteries and electrolyte growth
  • Sub-$ 100 per kWh battery
  • Cobalt-- totally free chemistry: In 2016, Tesla partnered with the Dahn battery research team out of Dalhousie University to deal with this and various other lithium-ion difficulties. See "Is Cobalt Needed in Ni-Rich Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries?"
  • $ 400 billion Tesla market cap
  • Mining: reports of Tesla mineral searches and mining business acquisitions abound
  • Dry electrode modern technology, obtained with the acquisition of Maxwell, can make it possible for greater energy thickness. Maxwell declared that its dry electrode production modern technology, historically used to make ultracapacitors, is "an innovation that can be related to the production of batteries."

There's that word once more.

' Self-reinforcing upwards circle'

UBS increased its price target on Tesla ahead of the occasion and one of its experts shared this pearl: "Putting the most recent underperformance aside, capitalist assumptions for the battery day on Sept. 22 as well as TSLA shares have actually been in a self-reinforcing upwards circle over the past few months."

For many years, Musk has actually assured the capacity of complete battery swap, 620 miles from a single charge and production of 1,000 solar roof coverings per week.

We'll return with our bingo results after following week's battery day occasion.


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