<center>https://mentormarket.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tesla-1.jpg</center> <br/><h3><a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/26/tesla-developing-own-ev-battery-cells/">Tesla
is quietly developing its own EV battery cells (endgaget)</a></h3>
<ul><li>According to current and recent employees talking to CNBC, <strong>Tesla is developing the means to manufacture its own batteries at scale. </strong></li><li>In-house cells would allow Tesla to <strong>optimise its battery-packs</strong> for its cars and could enable them to <strong>cut costs</strong>. </li></ul>
<h3>Analysis and Comments</h3>
<ul><li>Tesla making its own cells would fit with Musk’s general ambition to make Tesla as <strong>vertically integrated </strong>as      possible, and falls in line with his acknowledgement of the company having been “<strong>battery-constrained</strong>” in the past. </li><li>The news also comes after Tesla’s <a href="https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-completes-acquisition-maxwell-technologies">acquisition</a> of <strong>battery maker Maxwell Technologies</strong> earlier this month and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-battery/tesla-in-talks-with-chinas-catl-for-rechargeable-batteries-bloomberg-idUSKBN1QS11L">reports</a> of the company talking to Chinese EV battery makers.</li><li>Tesla is not alone in eyeing the battery manufacturing space: while <strong>BMW</strong> has continued to express      reservations about making their own batteries, <strong>VW</strong> is investing in a battery cell factory in Germany, and <strong>Toyota</strong> is working with Panasonic to build a battery JV next year. </li><li><strong>Some  degree of pricing power is likely to return to the cell manufacturers</strong>. This is a <strong>risk for the automotive OEMs</strong> which are banking on continued commoditization of the industry so that battery pack costs fall below $100/kWh. </li><li>In my view, they may be disappointed, as I think <strong>battery pack costs could potentially find a mid term floor at c. $140/kWh</strong>, with commodity price hikes and margin improvement for cell manufacturers being the two major risks for battery costs. </li></ul>
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