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The company says it doesn't make 4680-type cylindrical battery cell vehicles in China. Tesla will stick with currently used battery cell types in its China-made electric cars, rather than introducing new rumored types. The company issued a statement on its Weibo channel (via CnEVPost), which denies multiple rumors that appeared in the Chinese media in the past months. There are no plans to use any new battery types, including the 4680-type cylindrical battery cells, in electric cars produced at the Giga Shangai plant, Tesla explains. Let’s recall that the Made-in-China (MIC) Tesla Model 3/Model Y are equipped with either CATL’s...
