Tesla's Battery Day caused a stir in advance.
Group boss Elon Musk had fueled the hype.
Now it is clear: the electric car pioneer is continuing to push the pace.
The e-car pioneer
Tesla held
its first Battery Day on Tuesday.
CEO
Elon Musk
wants to increase the pressure on the established manufacturers.
A top model will soon come up with driving performance like a
Ferrari
.
Munich - The general meeting of the electric car pioneer
Tesla
* on Tuesday in
Fremont
,
California
was somewhat bizarre.
In the front, CEO
Elon Musk
was standing in front of
the microphone in a black T-shirt and spoke to the shareholders.
But this year they weren't sitting in their chairs, but instead sat
in their freshly polished
Teslas in the parking lot of the
Gigafactory
due to the
corona and cheered - via car horn.
Musk provided plenty of opportunity for a good mood in the rather dreary company parking lot.
In the current year the company will grow by 30 to 40 percent despite "pandemics, firestorms and a number of production problems", promised the multi-entrepreneur and reaped the hoped-for horn concert.
While car sales worldwide are shrinking by a third, the Californians want to deliver around 500,000 cars by the end of the year.
That would be a good 36 percent more than a year ago.
Cybertruck, ATV, Roadster & Semi
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- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 23, 2020
Tesla: model for the mass market
But
Tesla
also wants to
scare
the competition in the
medium term
.
By 2023 you will have a car for 25,000 dollars at the start, Musk announced on the subsequent
Battery Day
.
That would be around $ 13,000 less than
Tesla
calls for its current entry-level Model 3 and the final entry into the mass market.
Musk wants to bring in the hoped-for price jump especially with the battery.
According to the plans,
Tesla
wants
to use a silicon anode in the future.
Silicon is cheaper and conducts lithium better, it said.
In addition, the production of electrodes is to become considerably faster in the future due to a production switch to a new "dry" process.
To this end, Musk will soon largely forego the use of cobalt and instead use nickel.
That would be cheaper.
In addition, there have been repeated reports in the past that child labor is the order of the day when promoting cobalt ore.
Tesla
would no longer have to expose
itself to these allegations in the
future.
Tesla: E-drives should be cheaper than conventional combustion engines
If everything comes out like this, an electric drive will be cheaper than a conventional combustion engine in a few years, Musk announced at Battery Day, which is followed closely by many investors.
But because the many technical details were
heavy fare
even for die-hard
Tesla
fans, Musk had a promotional video played on the latest performance data of the
Model S to be on the
safe side.
Thanks to a new drive train, the drilled out limousine is expected to reach 320
km / h
in the future and thus race in the
Ferrari
league.
The range should also increase from around 600 to 860 kilometers.
Ferrari
fans barely manage half that with their cars and a full tank of fuel.
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