{"id":244507,"date":"2026-09-25T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/tesla-builds-first-cybercab-using-in-house-battery-materials"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:03:26","slug":"tesla-builds-first-cybercab-using-in-house-battery-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/tesla-builds-first-cybercab-using-in-house-battery-materials","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Builds First Cybercab Using In-House Battery Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-builds-first-cybercab-using-in-house-battery-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s push to bring its battery supply chain under one roof just hit a major milestone on the factory floor. The first production Cybercab powered by cathode battery materials produced entirely in-house has officially rolled off the assembly line at Gigafactory Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone was confirmed by Tesla\u2019s official <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robotaxi\/status\/2102870359511105606?s=20\">Robotaxi account<\/a> on X, which posted: \u201cFirst Cybercab made using our in-house cathode material \u2013 from the first cathode plant in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough represents the culmination of a multi-year effort to master dry-cathode 4,680 battery manufacturing. Not only does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notateslaapp.com\/news\/4174\/teslas-dry-cathode-breakthrough-could-drastically-reduce-battery-costs\">Tesla\u2019s dry cathode process cut battery costs<\/a>, but producing the raw active electrode powder domestically takes vertical integration to an entirely new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s push to bring its battery supply chain under one roof just hit a major milestone on the factory floor. The first production Cybercab powered by cathode battery materials produced entirely in-house has officially rolled off the assembly line at Gigafactory Texas. The milestone was confirmed by Tesla\u2019s official Robotaxi account on X, which posted: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}