New Tesla battery? Exploring the China prismatic LFP news

New Tesla battery? Exploring the China LFP news. Reuter's broke the news that Tesla was switching to CATL's prismatic LFP battery from their standard cylindrical NCA battery. I wanted to dig into a little more detail on the differences between the battery formats, how they’re made, why they’re chosen, and what the change in battery chemistry means. Including the fact that the CATL batteries don’t use cobalt.

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Full script and citations: https://undecidedmf.com/episodes/2020/2/29/new-tesla-battery-exploring-the-china-lfp-news

Related videos:
Hyperchange CATL report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWHtQ7bmMkE
Sean Mitchell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmsW1JQ33oc
Future of batteries: https://youtu.be/XjX3deXDtnQ
Prof. Jeff Dahn and the 1 Million Mile Battery: https://youtu.be/GJrsB0MJMsM

Video sources:
▻ MIT Technology Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t\_72pVVmgcY
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▻ LG Chem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9HbHZXEEDs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Lczd7MjGc
▻ CATL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DReeqKQSJ4

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