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Tesla’s cobalt-free battery strategy is making Elon Musk an actual “iron man”

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While LFP cells use cheaper materials, and while they could be consistently charged fully without much degradation, they tend to be larger, heavier, and generally hold less energy than nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cells. Audi CEO Markus Duesmann, in comments that were shared last March, also spoke highly of LFP cells’ potential.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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We are starting with optimizing our conventional drive trains—the TDI diesel engines, the TSI engines, the DSG transmission, all of those technologies have helped us to lower our fuel consumption a lot. Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). More on this below.). TSI, the 2.0 TDI latest generation.

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