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this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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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.
Tesla does not make Lithium iron phosphate batteries which the RWD model uses.
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.
Yet. They purchased some hardware to do it from CATL.