Panasonic plans to give Tesla top priority for the 4680 batteries. This makes sense if Tesla is to deliver its first 4680 vehicles in Q1 2022.
Panasonic has announced that it will be giving Tesla top priority for the new 4680 batteries, which makes sense since Tesla is set to deliver its first 4680 vehicles in Q1 2022.reported that Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda said that Panasonic is renovating its facilities and plans to start trial production in Wakayama Prefecture, which is near Panasonic’s headquarters in Osaka. The trial production is expected to start in the fiscal year beginning in April.
She also said that the time and place for mass production of the 4680 batteries haven’t been decided yet.of the 4680 battery design, and the company’s head of energy business, Kazuo Tadanobu, showed it at a media roundtable. He stated that the core reason for Panasonic’s development of the battery was due to Tesla’s “strong desire” for it.
During the Tesla Q4 2021 earnings call last month, Elon Musk noted that in Texas, Tesla is already building the Model Y with the structural battery packs and 4680 cells. He also said that Tesla would start delivering them soon.
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