There's a lot of junk out there, and we see many posted here. Seeking Alpha quality ranges from trash to outstanding highly nuanced analyses. You can't paint their articles with a broad brush, you really need to independently judge the quality of the piece.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2016, at 6:09 AM, robert winfield via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really? giving credence to Seeking Alpha articles?You may also want to point > out that a Bolt, with a 60kWh battery is much smaller than a Tesla S60 (same > size battery, with barely the same range and a Bolt with an L3 port can get > 90 miles range in 1/2 hour, while a Tesla with a supercharger can get 170 > miles in 1/2 hour. About twice the range in the same time (roughly 400v @300 > amps)The tesla battery pack also provides torsional and such strength to the > entire frame with the skateboard designIf an individual clyndrical cell fails > in the tesla battery pack, it is bypassed and barely noticed. If a prismatic > or a pouch battery fails there is a large difference. > > From: brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:36 AM > Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: Batteries are King (A Gigafactory Challenge) > > > > http://seekingalpha.com/article/3936476-tesla-gigafactory-challenge > Tesla: A Gigafactory Challenge > Feb. 26, 2016 Frank Greenhalgh > > [images > https://staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/2/3860661_14564468182045_0.jpg > The Tesla Model S Battery Pack (uncovered) > > https://staticseekingalpha3.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/2/3860661_14564468182045_2.png > singular unit Bolt Battery Pack > ] > > In 2014 Tesla announced the "Gigafactory," the answer to high battery > prices. > > The Chevrolet Bolt demonstrates the advantages of prismatic cells. Fewer > cells, easier to cool and cheaper. > > Tesla should consider also manufacturing prismatic cells in the Gigafactory > for the Model 3. > > The Gigafactory > > In their December 2014 10-Q report, (page 11) Tesla announced: > > We believe that the Tesla Gigafactory will allow us to achieve a major > reduction in the cost of our battery packs of greater than 30% on a per kWh > basis by the end of the first year of volume production of Gen III. The > total capital expenditures associated with the Tesla Gigafactory through > 2020 are expected to be $4-5 billion, of which approximately 2 billion is > expected to come from Tesla. > > True to form, Tesla had decided to vertically integrate further, by > manufacturing their own batteries. At that time battery pack prices were > approximately $300/kWh, so a 30% saving would reduce the costs to $210 a > kWh. The Model 3 will probably use a 50kWh batt _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
