4680

Panasonic announced on Wednesday a delay in the commercial production of its 4680 battery cells, a key component in Tesla’s electric cars, pushing back the start of operations to between April and September 2024. This is a significant deviation from their earlier plan to initiate production between April 2023 and March 2024, reports Reuters. The […]

Tesla recently hit a new milestone in the production of its next-generation 4680 battery cells, manufacturing a whopping 868,000 cells in a week for the first time ever. That’s enough to make 4680 battery packs for 1,000 cars. “Congrats to the 4680 cell team on achieving 868k cells built in the last 7 days—equal to […]

Kevin Chau (@kchau), who makes a hobby of scouring service manuals and related documentation to find interesting information, recently found that the front and rear castings, among other things, of Tesla’s new Model Y design with 4680 cells and a structural battery pack are highly repairable (and can even be replaced). The new structural battery […]

After reports surfaced of Tesla preparing to launch a Standard Range All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) Model Y trim for the U.S. market, a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval shows the company is finally set to debut the new trim option for 2023. Tesla is getting ready to launch a new Model Y trim option for 2023, […]

Twitter user and Tesla enthusiast Chris Zheng (@ChrisZheng001) on Saturday shared a rumor claiming that the Model 3 and Model Y will get a major upgrade sometime next year. It looks like the Tesla Model 3/Y will be followed by a massive update. – The RWD version will have two new batteries, the LFP blade […]

Implementing Tesla’s 4680 battery cell has been quite the process, but some experts say the end result could chop battery pack pricing by as much as half once it enters mass production. Tesla could cut Model Y battery costs in half with the introduction of the 4680 battery cell, according to several sources familiar with […]

Sandy Munro and his team have been in a weeks-long deep dive into Tesla’s 4680 battery cells and a new video on the topic looks at the current collectors used to send electricity from the batteries. In a new video, the Munro Live team looked at the overall layout of the Model Y 4680 battery […]

For those wondering about Tesla’s 4680 structural battery pack—which is posing to be very difficult to open by third parties—yes, it can be recycled. Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the company’s 4680 structural battery pack found in the Texas-made Model Y, can indeed be recycled. “No problem to recycle the 4680 pack. Just think of […]

Sandy “Teardown Titan” Munro’s team gave us our first look inside a production Tesla Model Y’s 4680 structural battery pack in a teaser video shared on Twitter. We are cracking open the 4680 battery pack! Video coming soon… #MunroLive #TeardownTitan #Tesla #Battery #ElectricVehicle pic.twitter.com/WY8GJYRgDu — Munro Live (@live_munro) July 8, 2022 Munro & Associates is […]

Munro & Associates have released their video detailing the company’s hands-on with Tesla’s 4680 structural pack from its Model Y made at Gigafactory Texas. The 17-minute video details the 4680 structural battery pack on its own, which has the Model Y’s seats bolted right onto the pack itself, as part of Tesla’s vehicle design. The […]

According to Tesla enthusiast @tesla_adri, the electric vehicle (EV) maker has set up a booth at the “IdeenExpo” in Hannover, Germany. The company is showing off the cross section of a Model Y chassis with a structural battery pack featuring its new 4680 battery cells, as well as a solar-powered range extender trailer at the […]

Today ‘teardown titan’ Sandy Munro shared a Tesla Model S Plaid battery teardown, revealing there are 7,920 battery cells inside. But the bigger announcement was Munro’s team has purchased a Texas-made Model Y with a 4680 structural battery pack, and is tearing down the latter the moment they receive delivery of the vehicle in Florida. […]

Another battery supplier is set to prepare 4680 cylindrical batteries for Tesla, and this time it’s Samsung SDI, according to The Elec. The South Korean publication says it has learned Samsung SDI is preparing a pilot line to make 4680 test batteries for Tesla at its Cheonan plant, with the verification of the technology to […]

After re-launching Enhanced Autopilot in the U.S. (and Canada), Tesla appears to be adding in the feature for some of its Model Y existing inventory listings. According to one 2022 Model Y All-Wheel Drive Standard Range with 4680 battery from Giga Texas, the listing showed local delivery in Miami was available (as previously reported) for […]

After offering an Acceleration Boost upgrade for Tesla’s Model Y with 4680 battery pack, the electric automaker has since removed it, as of today, according to YouTube channel Spoken Reviews. Around June 12 or so, the option to purchase the Acceleration Boost was available for $2,000 USD, for Spoken Review’s Model Y AWD with 4680 […]