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Should Tesla Make Batteries Instead of Electric Cars?
cartechboy writes: "Tesla seems to be doing quite well these days, but one bond trader thinks the company should quit making electric cars and focus efforts on making batteries instead. Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach says he's already tried to meet with Elon Musk to persuade him to take the battery-only route. Speaking to Bloomberg, he said Tesla could be 'wildly transformational' in the same way electricity and electromagnets were at the advent of their discovery. Enough people are interested in Tesla's vehicles that Musk probably won't take Gundlach's advice. Should he?"
I was under the impression that Tesla vehicles used banks of off-the-shelf 18650 Li-ion batteries.
Really? Because you read it on a forum? 18650's are great for flashlights but pretty lousy on density/weight. They no doubt use a custom packaging, there would be no point in having a zillion cylinders and all the requisite wasted space and weight inside a single pack for a roadster. Guess we will have to wait until someone finally tears one open (or there is a bad enough crash) to know for sure though.
Tell me how Lotus was involved in the Model S.