Battery Pack
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes
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Adcock: Figure's robot uses a 2.25 kWh torso battery pack
“And then at the end, pops out basically a pretty heavy 2.25 kilowatt hour battery pack. ... So this so this battery will basically go right into the torso. It's one of the heaviest components we have.”
Bevirt: Joby Aviation vertically integrates flight computers, motors, and batteries
“So we we've chosen as a company to be incredibly vertically integrated. So we want to make the best flight computers. We want to make the best air data computers. We want to make the best motors. We want to make the best battery packs. We want to make the best…”
Berdichevsky: Increasing battery cell energy density is key to affordable EVs
“And it turns out the more energy each battery cell can store, the cheaper the battery pack can be. And the way to think about the reason for that is if every battery cell you have stores twice as much energy, then you need half as many cells. And if you need h…”
The raw material inside a 4 kWh EV battery costs $240
“Just the material alone in a typical four kilowatt battery pack is about 240 dollars today. About 60 dollars a kilowatt. This is the raw material inside.”
Mehta: Batteries represent approximately 35% of electric scooter cost
“Batteries, I can't give the exact numbers, but in percentage, generally about 35% is a good estimate.”
Maini: India's 18% battery GST versus 5% EV GST penalizes EV manufacturers
“Electric vehicles at five percent GST, but a battery pack, right? Batteries are at 18%, right? So it's also hard, A, for a lot of companies only making electric vehicles where they'll have an inverted duty structure, because the input will over time be more th…”