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Originally Posted by dyna mo
look at it this way crockett, regardless of subsidies, tesla is betting their future on LI-ion batteries. If not, they would not be investing in the gigafactory, whose sole purpose is to manufacture li-ion bats and doesn't even go online until 2020.
tesla is counting on the status-quo of current bat tech.
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The status-quo is their stop gap which allows them to sell cars and build a company. Claiming they aren't building new batteries would be like saying GM isn't developing new engines..
The simple fact is the ion batteries are cheaper to produce, but that doesn't mean they are not working on the other batteries. Musk himself has said that they have to be proven first before he puts them in cars.
Hence the reason the ion batteries will remain the defacto.. Just because he's not using them in cars doesn't mean they are not working on them. You don't just rush the next new things out to production it takes years.
He is trying to push the cost of the car down, hence the usage of the ion batteries at this time. That doesn't mean they aren't working on a replacement.