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Old 4th June 2015, 12:12 PM
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Tesla's battery is still a huge set of Panasonic cyllindric consumer batteries. Yes, Tesla buys consumer batteries from Panasonic to build their car batteries. Perhaps very smartly managed, but still a set of old small batteries. There is no real advancement in battery technology with Tesla's arrival. What humanity needs is a breakthrough in battery technology. We need batteries with 1000x capacity that are 1000x faster to charge.
It's 7104 of the below to be exact(possibly slightly modified), just in a big case with liquid cooling and battery management to ensure equal charging/discharging. If you got one of those battery banks after testdrive you have 1 of these batteries inside it.



http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-...336569642.html
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