Tesla Battery Day

Why HN readers recommended it

Treated as the essential primary source for Tesla's battery and cost-reduction plans, and a feast for engineering nerds.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tesla

Topic

electric vehicle batteries

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Copy pasting previous comment since the number of people misrepresenting the ground breaking tech that was announced is to high to spend energy on: 1)56% reduction in cost (which blows way past the $100/kwh holy grail for EV to sub $40). This by itself is …

• This is directly related to their set of battery day announcements [1]. Some of the key points from their battery day are: - focus on simplifying process from ore to EV in order to maintain cost declines per unit energy while enabling scale up - …

• The five times more energy dense and 6 times the power refers to the design explained on Tesla's Battery day. Seriously, they made a 2 hours presentation about it. Total nerd porn : [VIDEO] This really applies to the cells, not the battery itself, I …