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What batteries are in the semi-trucks? I would assume it isn't even Tesla's battery but the LFP batteries from BYD and CATL for faster charging, and longevity. Powerwalls are LFP batteries.


And "BYD has deployed more than 60,000 electric buses that are currently operating around the world" so 1,000 semi trucks isn't so much.

There are more full-electric buses running in London than Tesla had orders for the Semi.


Tesla fans are like horses with blinders. In this submission alone you have multiple people acting like commercial-sized electric vehicles are something the world has never seen, let alone mass produced, so we need to cut Tesla and Musk some slack (some even feel free to throw in a puerile, childish, "feel free to do better yourself or show us what you've done").


And the BYD ebus started in 2010.


Only the newest version of Powerwall (v3) is LFP.




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