Crissa
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- Crissa
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I think the observation they were only using a dry anode and not cathode was key to this: Austin wasn't designed to have any of a wet process in it. So it may be that something tripped them up at scale.I think Tesla has been struggling with ramping up 4680 at Austin as well. Last shareholders meeting they said they still weren’t producing them in Texas. I know the cathode plant is coming online soon, but I hadn’t realized that was part of the game plan.
I’d heard some of the parts to turn 2170s into structural packs had gotten trapped in Shanghai during the shutdown and that was a big part of it.
Of course, few were expecting a dry anode at all, so...
-Crissa
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