Tesla to roll out China-made Model 3 cars with cobalt-free LFP batteries


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Tesla to roll out China-made Model 3 cars with cobalt-free LFP batteries By Reuters - 01 October 2020 Exhibition staff and attendees look around a Tesla Model 3 at the 18th Central China International Auto Show on August 13 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Image: Getty Images US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is poised to start selling some Model 3 vehicles made in China equipped with cobalt-free lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, two people familiar with the matter said. Currently the Model 3 electric sedans made at the car maker's Chinese plant use nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries. The starting price for...