What was interesting to me was how he talked about a conformal padding between each cell that handles the 0.5mm of expansion from each side. So much more solid structurally compared an LG pouch cell.Check this out, a new LiFePO4 cell giga plnt in the US:
Didn't they explain they have different cells for different applications, from Autos to grid-scale storage?I thought he mentioned something in car battery equivalents but they are going to be doing basically Tesla mega pack type utility support systems with 3.5 MWh per container in their latest expansion space.
Yes basically right now it's just a pilot line to get processes optimised and suppliers validated and workforce trained. Then they build a gigafactory and scale it up much larger.Didn't they explain they have different cells for different applications, from Autos to grid-scale storage?
The grid-scale stuff is the last of a series of expansions they have planned it seemed.
Its 1 gigawatt in 3 years from the video. it is just a pilot plant.lets see, a gigawatt-hr is 1,000,000,000 watt-h or 1,000,000kwh per year.
1,000,000kwh /70kwh per car is about 142,000 cars per year, 2700 cars per week.