Pins on cheap batteries Tesla profits

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Tesla Motors Ltd. said, Palo Alto electric car industry supported by Toyota Motor Company, Daimler AG, cheaper batteries will make the model S sedan in profitable with much lower sales of Nissan Motor Co. and seeks to her page.

D $ 57,000 electric model, which uses cells similar to those in laptops, aims to make money Tesla on annual births, 20,000 strobl said in an interview it becomes President.

Having said Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn combined battery car sales for Nissan and Renault SA may need access to vehicles 500 thousand years to be profitable without government assistance.

Strobl said Wednesday in an interview to choose Nissan type than lithium ion batteries means "will challenge cost would be more difficult to resolve", "it will require many high volume before really getting sustainable cost point".

The Tesla, which continues to post an annual profit, automobile rechargeable $ 109,000 since 2008, by thousands of small lithium-ion cells similar to those used in laptops. And Silicon Valley startup says these cells, Panasonic's and other manufacturers, will remain the most cost-effective in the foreseeable future of lithium batteries in paper and $ 41,000 General Motors Corporation v components, which went on sale this month.

Battery packs Tesla may cost less than $ 200 per

KWh compared with about $ 700 to 800 per kWh lithium ion packs, so-called large format cell Eberhard Martin, founder of Tesla and former Executive Director, said in an interview last month. Strobl declined to confirm or discuss cost estimate Eberhard battery packs Tesla.

Electric car Nissan strategy really are not comparable with the Tesla, Yokohama spokesman David Reuter, a North American company based in Japan. But he did not say.

Reuters said "product page Nissan programme would be profitable over the life cycle. He refused to say how much time will turn $ 32780 product page.

Reuters said that company has been developing its technology lithium ion over two decades, "which had already been consuming many investment through many years".

While higher price S model will make it easy to reap the profits with fewer shipments, strobl Tesla for cheaper batteries are the main reason. Sedan sales is to be launched in 2012.

Challenge Tesla to ensure high quality of battery packs, and vehicles and is seeking to expand the scope of supply of cars around a thousand years to bring 20,000 or more S model, said Smith company, which specializes in alternative payment vehicles ranked "automotive research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Smith said "there's a crazy". "... Use Tesla cells while not exactly the same as those in laptops, can make to existing production lines.

As a result, did not have a Tesla to spend as much battery research, development and production of lithium ion cell, said Smith. Smith said, "especially for a small factory, a logic that what they do".

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