Giga Factory & Lithium Batteries = risky?
I can't speak about you guys however I feel like I'm done with lithium batteries after using them for over a decade in my mobile phones. What a hear is since 5 years or so there is being huge investment in researching new battery technology around the world, with promising results. CEO of Daimler sort of indicated that there will be new batteries coming out maybe this year or it might take several years. But when it does come out they will come out with guns blazing. Then there is VW which purchased 5% of quantumscape. See
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-05/vw-said-to-buy-battery-startup-stake-for-tesla-challange
They reckon they are super close in be able to commercialize the Solid state battery with over 3 times the energy density of the current lithium batteries, last longer, can't burn and have faster recharging.
i know Tesla will be making sometime in the future a new lithium with 31% more energy density but come on that's nothing.
What happens if another battery manufacture partners with another auto manufacture within the next 3 years until the giga factory is built with new batterie tech that will blow Teslas antique lithium out of the water? Considering they patent the new tech around the world. So even if a Tesla wanted to manufacture the new batteries in there giga factory they may be refused. 3 years lots can happen right? I would love to hear your thoughts about this and would tesla have a plan B? I want to order a model 3 but what would happen after waiting 3 years for it to come out and then finding out that there are other EVs on the market already with a superior battery/range. We can not forget the Giga factory is in partnership with Panasonic making the situation more complex for Tesla if such situation would occur. Is Tesla being risky in betting on no new battery tech and would I enter that risk if I would order a model 3? What's are your thoughts?
I can't speak about you guys however I feel like I'm done with lithium batteries after using them for over a decade in my mobile phones. What a hear is since 5 years or so there is being huge investment in researching new battery technology around the world, with promising results. CEO of Daimler sort of indicated that there will be new batteries coming out maybe this year or it might take several years. But when it does come out they will come out with guns blazing. Then there is VW which purchased 5% of quantumscape. See
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-05/vw-said-to-buy-battery-startup-stake-for-tesla-challange
They reckon they are super close in be able to commercialize the Solid state battery with over 3 times the energy density of the current lithium batteries, last longer, can't burn and have faster recharging.
i know Tesla will be making sometime in the future a new lithium with 31% more energy density but come on that's nothing.
What happens if another battery manufacture partners with another auto manufacture within the next 3 years until the giga factory is built with new batterie tech that will blow Teslas antique lithium out of the water? Considering they patent the new tech around the world. So even if a Tesla wanted to manufacture the new batteries in there giga factory they may be refused. 3 years lots can happen right? I would love to hear your thoughts about this and would tesla have a plan B? I want to order a model 3 but what would happen after waiting 3 years for it to come out and then finding out that there are other EVs on the market already with a superior battery/range. We can not forget the Giga factory is in partnership with Panasonic making the situation more complex for Tesla if such situation would occur. Is Tesla being risky in betting on no new battery tech and would I enter that risk if I would order a model 3? What's are your thoughts?