{"id":95963,"date":"2019-09-08T22:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T05:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/tesla-battery-researcher-unveils-new-cell-that-could-last-1-million-miles-in-robot-taxis"},"modified":"2019-09-08T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T05:42:25","slug":"tesla-battery-researcher-unveils-new-cell-that-could-last-1-million-miles-in-robot-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/tesla-battery-researcher-unveils-new-cell-that-could-last-1-million-miles-in-robot-taxis","title":{"rendered":"Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in \u2018robot taxis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-battery-researcher-unveils-new-cell-that-could-last-1-million-miles-in-robot-taxis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When talking about the economics of Tesla\u2019s future fleet of robotaxis at the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/04\/22\/tesla-autonomy-event-news-hub\/\">Tesla Autonomy Event<\/a>, Tesla CEO Elon Musk emphasized that the vehicles need to be durable in order for the economics to work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe cars currently built are all designed for a million miles of operation. The drive unit is design, tested, and validated for 1 million miles of operation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the CEO admitted that the battery packs are not built to last 1 million miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about the economics of Tesla\u2019s future fleet of robotaxis at the Tesla Autonomy Event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk emphasized that the vehicles need to be durable in order for the economics to work: \u201cThe cars currently built are all designed for a million miles of operation. The drive unit is design, tested, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95963","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}