/ Tesla's existence. The company has constantly been relying on Panasonic to manufacture batteries for them, which is proving to be extremely troublesome. Elon Musk has openly stated on Twitter. How Panasonic was the only reason white asked.

Luck couldn't ramp up the model 3, the company's desired levels. As a result, Tesla has been working on removing their reliance on Panasonic as a way to vertically integrate its business into the body manufacturing process. In this video I'm gon na go over Tesla's plan to cut off Panasonic in May of 2019. It was announced that Tesla would officially acquire maximal technologies, a supercapacitor manufacturer with impressive battery technology.

This marked the start of Tesla's battery revolution as a tussles annual shareholder meeting Elon Musk stated that Tesla needed a solution. The scale battery production yeah. So this is a this is a key question. Is we got a scale battery production and match that to vehicle demand? Because most anything about that or we don't like the cat out of the bag too much but yeah still in the bag, I mean, I think it's right on I mean those are exactly the right problems that we need to solve to scale and they have to Have been for some time, but it's more obvious now than I think it ever was that we need a large-scale solution to sell production yes and get the cost per kilowatt hour lower and energy density higher yeah and we're not sitting yeah we're not sitting idly by.

We're taking all the moves required to be masters of our own destiny here, technologically and otherwise, and I think you know through through all the experience we've developed with partners and otherwise we have a we will. We have solutions in place yeah at the annual shareholder meeting. Elon Musk also talked about integrating Maxwell's battery cell technologies into their batteries, but hesitated to go into detail good question. What aspects of battery production will integration match? Well, Maxwell have we think this is really quite strategic, but we'll leave the details of this to the kind of the battery and powertrain investor day.

This is there's some very important technologies there that I think will have a big effect on the cost and and scaling of cell production, both reducing the cost and reducing the capital required to scale cell production. Right on in September of 2019, the rumors were confirmed when Tesla listed a job for battery cell manufacturing, stating that Tesla is currently seeking a technician for a manufacturing line. We are developing you'll, be part of a new product line. We're developing this job was titled manufacturing technician and was located in the cell manufacturing portion of Tesla's jobs in the same month.

Jeff Don Tesla's party research partner patented, a new million mile battery with the nickel manganese cobalt cathode. One month later, in October, of 2019, Tesla acquired hybrid systems, a company that specialized in building manufacturing equipment for the processes of battery manufacturing. An archived version of hybrids website states are among hybrids. Latest technology offerings are its advanced, automated vacuum, filling systems for lithium-ion body applications for using hybrid electric vehicles, computer notebooks and similar products in 2018 hybrid was awarded two million Canadian dollars from the National Research Council of Canada, Industrial Research assistance program to build a high-speed lithium-ion Battery manufacturing system for the growing market demand of mass electric energy storage solutions.

At this point it seemed that Kozlov would slowly begin to manufacture its own batteries. However, in February of 2020, it began to be clear that Tesla was quickly moving forward with its battery manufacturing. When Tesla posted a job listing for a pilot production engineer, which stated that Tesla's cell manufacturing engineering group is looking for a highly motivated equipment development engineer to accelerate our next Marisela manufacturing program, this role will be involved in the design, development, commissioning and ramping of high-throughput Equipment, while working in a cross-functional team to test validate and roll out processes and product design changes, Tesla also confirmed its plan to produce batteries at its Berlin Giga Factory with multiple job listings, claiming that employee would be working on a new cell manufacturing expansion. Just two weeks later sources told Electric about Tesla secret project, codenamed Roadrunner, which is aiming to allow Tesla to mass-produce a new battery cell denser and cheaper.

Then the current batteries produced by Panasonic these batteries would use Tesla's new battery technologies created by Tesla's battery research team led by Jeff Don, which includes a new advanced electrolyte, a nickel manganese cobalt cathode in a nickel, cobalt, aluminum electrode, which were all patented within the past 12 months, if you haven't seen my video on the nickel cobalt aluminum electrode go check that out in the top right of the screen. Along with these groundbreaking discoveries. Tesla would also use Maxwell's dry, electrode technology, a technology that increased the energy density by a massive extent, while lowering production costs. If you haven't seen my video that goes deep into dry electro technology, that video is also on the top reddit screen now, strangely enough, the last place you'd expect to get information from linkedin has been reviewing some information about tussles upcoming battery manufacturing program, tussles research and Development engineer, matthew, moore's, asked the engineers to come.

Join us and reinvent lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing technology. Barney Eggleston senior manager of salminen fracturing at Tesla also stated that tesla was developing world-class battery cell manufacturing technologies to enable the next generation of low-cost high performance electric vehicles. In energy storage products, all of this optimism is well backed by Tesla's recent battery developments unveiled in Tesla's patents, but many of you are probably wondering: what exactly can we look forward to in Tesla's upcoming batteries? There are four essential components that will be revealed on Tesla's body investor day: the single crystal NMC cathode, the new advanced electrolyte, the nca electrode and the dry electrode coating. By going over the specific benefits of each component, we can determine the full list of benefits coming from Tesla's new batteries.

The NMC cathode in advance electrolyte both go hand in hand with each other as Tesla's battery research partner, Jeff Don released, both of them. In the same patent application both of these will allow for tassles battery cells. The last two to three times longer than Kass allows current battery cells. These components enabled Tesla to manufacture their million mile battery along with increased lifetime.

The cathode, an electrolyte, will also allow for faster charging speeds. The nca electrode, according to electric, will enable Tesla's batteries to have similar or better energy density than tassles current batteries. Last but not least, is the dry electrode. This breakthrough, in my opinion, is the most impactful of them all.

He dry, electrode coating will allow for significantly higher energy density, greater than 300 watt hours per kilogram and reported in January of 2019 to be on path to 500 watt hours per kilogram. In other words, this would increase the model threes range to 450 miles and was reported to be on path to 600 miles of range, along with higher energy density. Dry electrode coating would also extend the battery life by up to two times more to top it off. It would also help with safety by improving the durability of the battery, while reducing cost by 10 to 20 percent.

Additionally, the dry body electric will also allow for 16 times production capacity density increase. Now in terms of environmental savings, the dry electrode technology will remove solvents from the entire manufacturing process. As a Tesla currently uses white electrode coating. The dry coating also removes the need for cobalt in the coding process.

Overall, in terms of vehicle performance, Tesla's, new batteries will increase the driving range and battery life, while making charging speeds faster compared to toss current vehicles from a business perspective, the new body will also benefit Tesla by allowing for higher production capacity, while simultaneously lowering costs. In terms of environmental savings, there will be less cobalt and no solvents used to wrap it all up. Hustles new bodies will be massively improved from the current batteries manufactured by Panasonic, and this will effectively cut off Panasonic from the battery manufacturing process. This will help Elon Musk's plan to vertically integrate the entire manufacturing process.

So really the one of the key things that happened this year is the the beginning of the transition of Tesla to a fully integrated sustainable energy company. Where you have solar, creating the energy, then the stationary battery pack, the power wall and power pack, storing the energy and then that energy being used in an electric vehicle. Now the great thing about this is it's its: it answers all it's a fully. It's a fully contained in its energy solution that could could scale for the whole world and I'm a-gettin Ted for a moment.

But it's something where you can imagine as far in the future. Well, what well beyond human civilization, which I hope lasts a really long time, that this is something that that would last we're really. You know this is this: this works and and and there I think there are no unanswered questions even the in the gigafactory or the gig factories that make these products will be powered by sustainable energy. So, like, I really don't think, there's any hole and left in the argument.

You know because we're making electric cars people would say that well, they're, just they're, really coal, powered and and there's like the long tail pipe. You know and the route type the tail pipe is really over there by the power plant like yeah, but you know we're gon na have sustainable energy generation too, and and then but but the you can still have gasoline cars. So you could have electric cars today. No, it's the same, apply energy production and then you go to store that energy, because the Sun don't shine at night, they're all simple one: two three! It has been amazingly difficult to explain this, like only three pictures there, man, I think, come on.

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