SAIC-GM joint venture, together with battery juggernaut CATL, announced a new LFP battery capable of 6C charging to be used in the next-generation Ultium EVs
Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.
After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.
The battery’s chemistry isn’t important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that’s standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla’s old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.
I hope they can win that competition. I’d love to see GM produce an EV that’s almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.
Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.
After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.
You are comparing apples to oranges here since this is an LFP battery while the Tesla 4680 isn’t.
The battery’s chemistry isn’t important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that’s standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla’s old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.
I hope they can win that competition. I’d love to see GM produce an EV that’s almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.
Avoiding GM is always a good idea in my opinion. :)