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CYBERTRUCK MANUFACTURING IS A DISASTER, TESLA INSIDERS SAY
AND IT'S NOT THE BODY PANELS...Production Hell
It's looking increasingly likely that Tesla is facing serious trouble with the production of its recently announced Cybertruck — and we're not talking about the pickup's highly unusual bulletproof stainless steel exoskeleton or massive glass panels.As Tesla insiders told Reuters, the EV maker's main bottleneck when it comes to building the Cybertruck is actually producing the vehicle's next-generation 4680 lithium-ion battery cells, roughly 1,360 of which are needed for each Cybertruck.
Tesla is trying out an entirely new approach to producing the cells that relies on dry-coating electrodes, a process that's technically faster and cheaper — at least on paper.
But there's one big problem: Tesla apparently has yet to figure out how to scale up the process enough to power entire cars with them.
- "We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck." – MuskyNBQ00