Berdichevsky: Early Tesla battery prototype was super-glued laptop cells
Gene Berdachevsky · Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies · Mar 7, 2024 · at 6:42
Gene Berdichevsky, early Tesla engineer and co-founder/CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies, describes the origin of the first Tesla Roadster battery pack architecture.
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“The sort of initial prototype of the battery was laptop cells that were literally super glued together. And so that was what we started with. And over the course of four years, we engineered a system that was able to interconnect cool and safely manage Almost 7000 individual cells and stuffed that into the back of, you know, a car frame of the Lotus Elise.”
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