Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
5 Comments
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 250d
The most aggravating part is that they really are very good batteries but by pulling an elon and massively overpromising they're about to kill off the entire production chain, taking said very nice cells down with them since nobody wants to be associated with their shit-tier quality in every other aspect. And predictably the cells, which afaik are only available to the public via dismantled packs (and aren't available at all to industry...) go for absurd amounts ($100/cell) so there won't be anyone else actually adopting them.
God I hate tesla.
suodrazah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 250d
crank0271@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
It seems like one could just stand by the car wash and harvest plenty of these cells.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
Yeah people do this, there's a huge market in dismantling "dead" packs to retrieve the healthy cells. It's where most of the aftermarket cells for automotive batteries come from.
filt@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 250d
LOL
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 250d
Too bad. Couldn't have happened to a nicer... uh... ketamine addict, fascist sympathizer, apartheid beneficiary, and destroyer of U.S. institutions who directly caused millions of deaths in the developing world through the gutting of USAID.
You know, actually, now that I'm writing it out? Fuck that guy.