What have Tesla’s battery technology successes got to do with the bicycle business and long term sustainability of our transport? Ellis Blackman argues that these are developments we should be watching closely…
Over the last few years, Tesla have dominated the word with their EV’s, we all know about their cars and their truck, but, they have also been putting a lot of time and effort into other electric vehicles, like an ATV, Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) plane, drones and many other very interesting things.
A lot of people (myself included) think that the future of battery tech was in solid state batteries, this is due to the fact that if you remove the liquid electrolyte, you could extrude sections of the battery, very similar to how you process plastics. Meaning that it would not only be significantly safer to manufacture, but it would also reduce costs per KWH significantly.
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