8 Dec 2023, 16:29 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Rivian fired 20 battery cell experts, including the company's lead battery engineer, Victor Prajapati, as it halts in-house battery cell development
6 Dec 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Rivian CFO Clair McDonough announced the company's plans to produce a simplified battery that sounds a lot like Tesla's structural battery pack
6 Sep 2022, 15:45 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Experts say Tesla could cut $5,500 from the Model Y battery costs thanks to the bigger 4680 cells and a new production technique, but ramping up is difficult
24 Aug 2022, 14:10 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Munro & Associates embarked on a journey to find the secrets inside Tesla’s structural battery pack, which has proven way more difficult than initially thought
29 Jul 2022, 13:01 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla’s new structural battery with 4680 cells is markedly different from all other car batteries on the market, including those made by Tesla
26 Jul 2022, 12:51 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The structural battery pack with 4680 cells should make the MIT Tesla Model Y a lot lighter than the one built with 2170 cells, but a scale test tells the truth
21 Jul 2022, 16:02 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The structural battery with 4680 cells of the made-in-Texas Tesla Model Y proves a tough nut to crack for Sandy Munro and his team, but they don’t give up
13 Jul 2022, 08:28 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Munro & Associates proceeded with the 4680 structural battery pack teardown, and the first conclusion is it has “zero repairability”
6 Jul 2022, 14:48 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Munro & Associates tears down the structural battery pack of a Tesla Model Y built at Giga Texas with 4680 battery cells and thinks it’s “mind-blowing”
16 Jun 2022, 16:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla has built the first Model Y using single-piece front and rear megacastings and a structural battery pack at Giga Berlin, but it is undrivable
6 May 2022, 14:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / We have only seen them in body-on-frame structures so far, and they still twisted quite a bit. Fisker will have quite an engineering challenge to beat
4 May 2022, 11:51 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Henrik Fisker announced the high-end electric four-door GT sports car with over 550 miles of range and an attractive price of just under $200,000
5 Jul 2021, 21:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The electric component also looks thinner than those used in Tesla vehicles, for example. However, it would be 48 kg heavier.