🇺🇸 Tesla quietly filed a patent that could cut battery production costs by nearly half.
The breakthrough is a new way to make battery cathodes without toxic liquid solvents, using a microscopic "spider web" structure that binds the materials together instead.
It also triples manufacturing speed and could shrink the physical footprint of battery factories by up to 50%.
It's not a lab experiment either. Gigafactory Texas is already mass-producing these cells for select Model Y vehicles, with Cybertruck, Cybercab, and Semi rollout expected through 2026 and 2027.
Battery cost is the last big barrier to affordable EVs. Tesla just moved the needle.
Source: Not a Tesla App