With a wavy heatsink between each canister 4680 cell, chemistry optimized to reduce nickel, and cobalt content, with more aluminum & manganese, a move that indirectly highlights the emerging Aluminum Ion battery that has potential as an attractive market shift away from finite lithium supplies, as energy storage batteries ESB become an increasing part of intermittent renewable portfolios of public private utility monopolies looking to green up their energy supply mix. Storing electricity in N+1 grid power system in utility scale energy storage modules a major application for 4680' cells by Tesla.
Though the cost of Solar PV + Batteries exceeds the LCOE for conventional Nuclear Fission plants, they offer a different pathway to electrical power generation without burning or combustion of fuels like natural gas peek plants that throttle up for the evening power peak as people get home from work and turn the lights and computers and TV's and microwaves on and start doing laundry and using energy to vacuum or mow the lawn or charge batteries or whatever else.
US demand for EV's electric vehicles, namely LIB lithium ion battery electric cars, SUV's and trucks, like the R1 or R1T from RIVIAN or the latest long range luxury LUCID EV, or the all popular Model 3 or Model Y from Tesla Motors made in California :)
A supply glut of excess 4680's cells shows how the market softening for EV adoption and even Tesla radical recent price cuts on their Model Y or Model 3 or S or X show that they have to increase sales volumes and the only way to do that is with price reductions.
Nearby in Seattle, Washington, gasoline sells for $5/ US gallon, but owning an EV means paying many hundreds extra annually on license registration vehicle renewals, such that a hybrid like our Corolla Hybrid or Meg's Prius III cost under $200 per year, but an EV like our 2019 Nissan LEAF costs $680 per year in registration fee's, and charging at home not free either as PSE the local electrical utility raised our grid power prices, and bin the fee's based on use, such that charging an EV at home drives us into the highest price per KWH bin making it even less cost efficient to charge at home. I am able to drive normally and get 55-70 MPG or miles per gallon in the 2022 Corolla Hybrid and Meg's getting 44-50 MPG in her Gen III Prius. We sold Allan our 05 Prius II and he hyper mile efficiency focused drives it and can get over 60 MPG average. This means that with gas prices at nearly 5 bucks per gallon, it's more cost efficient per mile to drive a hybrid than a limited range used Nissan LEAF. So we traded our LEAF for the Corolla Hybrid and I love the Corolla Hybrid sedan!
Learn more about Tesla 4680 and EV market dynamics changing in 2024 - 2025 MY EV sales declining
https://youtu.be/I3xWLe6Lphs?si=qvGpxzkHp4TJUlfL
Commentary :: This and most recent and future posts are adapting SF or short form style, so that someone can read it and find the linked video fast, since people are busy and have short attention spans now that TikTok short Clip videos have trained them to be ADD or ADHD with a fractured constantly shifting focus, something that can be good for driver safety if the driver does not touch their smartphone while driving :P Most vehicle accidents are cause by human error since FSD or full self driving not really a commercial product yet (as of 2024) no matter what Elon Musk keeps repeatedly claiming about it since 2014. More like a public BETA test ongoing autopilot training system to sell big data to other automakers.
Extension :: How people cycle their focus affects all human societies, all aspects of all economies, healthcare, medicine, education and all aspects of human life on Earth, including societies negative impacts on nature, ecosystems, wild animals, or the biosphere because of manmade or artificial pollution emissions of toxic substances like those emitted by the combustion of coal in thermal coal power plants for example.
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