While Tesla is certainly shifting its core focus away from electric cars towards artificial intelligence and robotics, a new report suggests that battery development for its next-generation models and the Robotaxi is underway in full swing at the company.
With its second-quarter earnings report, Tesla announced that it entered validation testing of its very first dry cathode 4680 cells in July.
Long suggested as a natural evolution from the standard motor-and-axle layout offered by current EVs, hub motors needed some development time to overcome a few inherent disadvantages, key among them the amount of un-sprung mass they add to each suspension corner.
