Tesla's Massive Battery for Australia Will Use Samsung Cells

Back in July, Elon Musk secured Tesla a contract for the world's largest lithium-ion battery thanks in no pocket-size role to a guarantee it would be running within 100 days of the contract being signed, or it would exist free.

The battery volition help ensure South Australia no longer has to suffer repeated blackouts when major storms hit, simply in order to exercise that, Tesla needs to build a 100-megawatt bombardment chop-chop.

Gigafactory 1 in Nevada is still in the process of coming online for battery prison cell production and only began producing them in the get-go quarter of 2022. Panasonic is Tesla's main battery supplier, but those batteries almost all stop upwards inside Model S and Model 10 vehicles. We also can't forget Tesla needs to ensure a supply of battery cells is available for its Powerwalls and Powerpacks.

With Tesla already the largest consumer of rechargeable batteries, it should come as no surprise the company had to await elsewhere for battery cells for the S Australian project. According to Electrek, it'due south Samsung who won out and the S Korean company'south battery cells volition be used for the world's largest rechargeable battery. Tesla will provide everything else that'south required.

To put the scale of this society with Samsung into context, during the last quarter Tesla required 97MWh of energy storage to fulfill all commercial Powerpack orders. For the 100 megawatt Due south Australia battery, 129 MWh of energy storage is needed. All of that capacity volition be provided by battery cells produced at Samsung SDI.

Samsung volition be pleased with securing such a large society, but also for having the foresight to develop its own '2170' battery prison cell appear dorsum in Jan. 2170 is the latest battery cell format used by Tesla and Panasonic, then past producing a compatible alternative Samsung made itself an obvious choice for future projects where supply is tight.