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There’s been a lot of interest in Tesla’s 4680 batteries since before they were even announced, but their development and ramp-up have been a bit below par in terms of most people’s expectations. I’ve seen various claims about these, and those claims have diverged quite a bit as time has gone on, so it was nice to get a little bit of an update on these batteries from Tesla yesterday on the company’s quarterly shareholder conference call (and briefly in its shareholder letter).
First of all, here’s the statement on them in the shareholder letter: “4680 ramp continued successfully in Q1 and continues to stay ahead of the Cybertruck ramp. Costs continued to come down sequentially as scrap, yield and production rate improved.”
On the call, when asked about that further, Tesla…
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