NEW Tesla 4680 BATTERY Patent Reveals IMPRESSIVE DETAILS

At battery day, when discussing the various improvements Tesla is making to battery cell manufacturing, roughly a minute was devoted to discussing their drastically improved “FORMATION” process, which made this process appear somewhat insignificant. However, DREW BAGLINO did point out that, “In a typical cell factory, formation is about 25% of the investment.” Notice that this process accounts for ¼ of the investment – this is NOT INSIGNIFICANT! This is a big deal!

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[TKevinBlanc]

That bit about identifying sub-par battery cells at 6:43 is so important. Battery fires are rare, but catastrophic. And fire departments are not ready for them. Nothing will turn the general public off more than FUD about catastrophic fires.

[georgeidarraga]

Thank you for making original content that covers information that is left untouched by other content producers. This was an excellent presentation that highlights why I believe Tesla has a bright future ahead of it. This type of innovative approach is exactly what should be emulated by other manufacturers.

[Urgelt]

Anyone who has worked in logistics over the last half-century will recognize those racks and robots. Robotic bin storage and retrieval in warehouses is old but useful tech, repurposed to support cell conditioning. What's really new here is the elimination of charge-discharge cables and connectors, improved thermal management, offset charge and discharge cycles, and liquid cooling. Tesla has grabbed existing processes from elsewhere and melded them into an efficient process flow that takes up less factory space. None of this is really new tech, but all of it represents elite production design. These guys are fantastic production engineers.

What we are not seeing in the patent is sensor tech and software, but we can be sure those racks are home to dense sensor networks and tight software integration. Tesla leaves nothing to chance.

Tesla takes Elon's 'no part is the best part' design philosophy and applies it to production engineering. It's exciting to see the result - factories like none the world has ever seen, constantly improving.

To succeed in this industry going forward, it's not good enough to design appealing prototypes without production engineers being intimately involved in every design decision. Designing for production is critical - and you *can't* design effectively for production if you rely on outsourcing for critical components. If you're stuck with existing market products, it's not going to go well. We see this in Ford's Mach-E HVAC system - 4 pumps! A rat's nest of screws, hoses and connectors. Too many assembly steps for factory floor operators and robots. Production engineering is an afterthought. According to Sandy Munro, VW's HVAC is even worse. Legacy automakers' determination to outsource everything they can is hurting their competitive success.

[dariushmilani]

Great presentation as always. You seem to research your topics thoroughly and meticulously.👍

[KJSvitko]

Tesla just keeps advancing the electric vehicle technology.
Better motors, better batteries, better sound system, better range, better performance, better entertainment system, better noise abatement, better build quality. They are years ahead of all other auto makers.

[thefoss]

Thanks for the info!!!! Keep em coming and we will keep tuning in!!

[DennisMurphey]

The material handling aspect and standard size container, automated crane and potential use of robotics is very close to a system i designed for the Assembly of Circular PC Boards for the AWACs radar system. We optimized cycle time, use of storage cubit feet and reduced waste, manual labor and overall cost of the AWACs systems by nearly 20%. we used Bar code for tracking and robots for load and unload into standardized containers, with an automated virtual load/unload machine. It was amazing to watch and I received a patient for the system. I fully appreciate your enthusiasm and see the effectiveness of such a system to lower costs, and the improved controls and reuse of energy is amazing. My work was competed in 1980. Many of our principles of the design and operation fall quite in line with this.

[timyarrow]

Thanks for the research and presentation here. Excellent content!

[rolfruisinger]

Very very interesting, this was where I learned about cell formation first.

[sandiegoray]

I have wondered about the elements of you entire presentation, and now I have a more foundational point of view, which has answered almost all of former questions. Thank you very much.

[bminerrolltide]

The most impressive thing is the intense engineering and software that goes into these factories. Elon means it when he says that the actual product is the factory. Charging battery groups with the energy of discharging cells is something that seems so obvious, but I'd bet that the power electronics of some cell manufacturers does not support this. Electricity usage during formation play a significant part of unit cost.

[ArthursHD]

13:00 Wait, what! Even factories used to convert that electricity into heat just like my OPUS charger. Guess it so causes batteries to be produced at a small enough scale that no one invested in similar solutions before.

[rickdeckard]

Waiting for my next Y with the 4680 batteries built in Austin.

[markb]

Easily overlooked, but very important. Great vid!

[jpinto]

intro up to 6:00... all the rest is worth 3mins... this much stretch for the platform will backfire.

[HueNarcisWorld]

Good explanation and effort in going through the pattern but the video is unnecessarily long. To many youtube focus on the ideal length video and too little provide value without wasting people's time

[ricinro]

The 4680 area of the Austin factory does have a few large high ceiling open areas where the formation area would reside.

[johannel]

Thanks Jonathan. This is so easily overlooked and thus very insightful. We have to be patient. The 4680 cell development process is revolutionary and will occur in stages over a few years w much optimization. The world will be a better place because of it!

[panaceiasuberes]

So basically this is an adaptation of a server rack...

[MrVaticanRag]

I always enjoy your clear explanations by the expansion of less publishes details🥝🥝🙏