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Battery costs have fallen 73 per cent to $268 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in the seven years to 2015 according to the US Department of Energy, and Tesla, the electric car maker, predicts they will reach $ 100/kWh by 2020.
GM will have to exceed 300 miles of range on a single charge to compete with Tesla and other manufacturers who plan to roll out electric pickups in the coming years.
China is the largest market for electric vehicles in the world, and despite cooling off this year, it could help Tesla keep up the pace of growth that Musk is always hungry for.
Tesla has been expected to focus on Model 3 production at its Shanghai automotive factory, where it mulls producing as many as 3,000 vehicles per week next year.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who says his company will have one million self-driving cars on the road by next year.
The best-known producer of electric cars, Tesla, will build a car and battery factory near Berlin.
It's highly unlikely the Cybertruck will go into production soon, in part because Tesla is still trying to make the Model 3 a mass-produced electric car and has the Model Y crossover SUV scheduled for next year.
News recently came to light of a breakthrough in cell technology that could see Tesla achieve a million mile battery.
Tesla is planning to launch Tesla Network, which will allow owners to place their autonomous vehicles as robotaxis.
The supply of battery cells (lithium-ion and sodium-ion) will prove challenging as the airline industry would need to compete with the electric vehicle industry, and Tesla is already concerned about lithium shortages in the coming years.
Operating the Tesla Network will make the electric car maker a player in the highly-competitive ride-sharing market, which is dominated by giants such as Uber and Lyft.
If Tesla does not cut prices soon, it risks losing potential customers - and ones already on its reservation list - to a slew of German and Asian competitors whose electric vehicles will hit the U.S. market this year.
The U.S. energy storage market is expected to reach an estimated $4.8 billion in value by 2028 but Tesla also sees growth opportunities in Australia and Europe as well.
By year-end 2020, Tesla drivers will be able to relinquish all responsibility to Autopilot and fall asleep while being transported from point to point, pending regulatory approval.
Elon Musk has promised Tesla will be selling fully self-driving cars within the next year, while Waymo has already driven 10 million autonomous miles on public roads and is now preparing to launch its robo-taxi service.
As Tesla is preparing to launch its 'Tesla Semi' electric truck next year, some are starting to imagine other possible applications than freight transport, like a Tesla Semi electric motorhome.
The American electric carmaker, Tesla, is setting up a manufacturing plant in Shanghai that is expected to be operational by the end of 2019.
Moving into battery cells could help Tesla better control the cost of its EVs-if it can manufacture battery cells more efficiently than its supplier, Japanese electronics firm Panasonic.
Battery pack costs have fallen to around $200 per kWh in 2018 from around $1,000 per kWh in 2010, but Elon Musk's Tesla claims that it is close to reaching a battery cell cost of $100 / kWh this year, with its battery pack costs expected to reach that level in 2020.
Tesla cars have been able to last for one million miles but starting in 2020 the battery packs will be able to last for a million miles as well.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, recently said that vehicles operating autonomously could be used in ride-hailing fleets and cost just 18 cents per mile.
Starting next year, owners will be able to flip a switch inside the Tesla app, and send out their car to pick up and drop off passengers autonomously, earning an estimated 65 cents per mile in fares.

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Last updated: 16 February 2020