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But that's what you do, just like in this thread. You say peeps should pick up a science book, then go on to say laptop batteries are the same as the batteries in the Tesla. I posted a chart 2x showing the basic difference for you, which you disregarded.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogo...-going-to-try/
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The forward-thinking company understands the challenge ahead and is on its way to doing just that, planning what CEO Elon Musk has dubbed a ?Giga Factory,? that would produce everything from the battery cells to fully finished packs. (Tesla currently uses about 7000 laptop-battery cells in each vehicle.) It has been buying commodity parts from Panasonic to make its packs and the recently announced deal between the two companies suggests that Panasonic could partner with Tesla to build such a facility.
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right now Tesla indeed buys regular laptop batteries from Panasonic
or at least people argue about it
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Tesla Motors refers to the Roadster's battery pack as the Energy Storage System or ESS. The ESS contains 6,831 lithium ion cells arranged into 11 "sheets" connected in series; each sheet contains 9 "bricks" connected in series; each "brick" contains 69 cells connected in parallel (11S 9S 69P). The cells are of the 18650 form-factor commonly found in laptop batteries. Sources disagree on the exact type of Li-Ion cells?GreenCar says lithium cobalt oxide (LiCo),[109] while researchers at DTU/INESC Porto state lithium manganese oxide (LMO).[110] LiCo has higher reaction energy during thermal runaway than LMO.[111]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
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Tesla has made clear its intentions to produce a much less expensive model in 2016-17 that will start at $35,000. As the company explained yesterday, if it hopes to deliver that car along with its pricier models, it will need to produce more lithium-ion batteries than are currently manufactured worldwide today.
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and to put that into perspective
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By upping its year-end target to 21,500 deliveries of the Model S sedan, planning to double the production rate by the end of next year, and setting up a new deal with battery supplier Panasonic that should allow it to build more than 100,000 vehicles within 4 years, Tesla is off to a good start. But the company has a long way to go before its numbers even begin to register on the global auto-sales scoreboard, which tallied nearly 82 million units last year.
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