Elon Musk said that in the business of manufacturing of batteries it has no worthy competitors Bashny.Net

Last Friday, the head of Tesla's Elon Musk interviewed Ronald Baron on a special investor conference held in New York. The conversation touched on one of the pillars of business Mask - electric batteries for the production of which the company has a sound investment of $ 5 billion and is planning to build in Nevada enormous "Gigafabriku." Musk has made it clear that his confidence in the success of this undertaking is very high, and explained why he thinks so.

It turned out that Tesla closely watching the market players who can deal with the production of electric batteries. On the one hand this is done to a good understanding of the balance of power and technology of its competitors, on the other hand, to classify the possible future opponents for some arbitrary scale from "1" to "5". Musk told, now in the world there are about 60 manufacturers of electric batteries, and the results of some of them can be attributed to long-term.

If a competitor Tesla has earned a rating of "5", in other words, its technological solution is high, the mask is ready to build a business with him. If the manufacturer indicated by the "1", it is nonsense, and then worry about. Elon Musk has admitted that he is now ready to put some people "three", but the question of "four" or "five" does not go, and so it turns out that Tesla beats the competition on a purely technical level. However, possible that there is some secret laboratory dedicated to electric batteries, which owns high-level technology and thus unknown to Tesla. However, this situation seems to Elon Musk unlikely because of the fact that his company is dominant in the market.

In late September, Musk has made several high-profile predictions. He said early as 2018 Tesla power reserve of more than 1,000 km, and in 2020 - 1200 km. Himself electric car by this time will be completely autonomous. October 9 this year, Tesla released a firmware update, which added an autopilot function, and which immediately began to test electric car owners, often ignoring safety requirements.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/265696/