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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That's odd that Tesla spends so much on its own battery R&D and manufacturing but they're buying batteries from a Chinese company, and only for the RWD model but not the others.

[–] schizoidman@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Oh ok, I thought they did. I was told by the guy at the Tesla dealer that model 3s from 2023 onward had LFP batteries so I assumed they were made by Tesla.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yet. They purchased some hardware to do it from CATL.