> Manufacturing of both cars and batteries. That's vertical integration.
Tesla is building their own battery packs, but they're still buying the cells from Panasonic, just like everyone else (Apple included) has the option to do.
Tesla is building their own battery packs, but they're still buying the cells from Panasonic, just like everyone else (Apple included) has the option to do.
And their first gigafactory in Nevada as far as I know has been producing cells for years. I suspect they stopped buying cells from Panasonic years ago.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Panasonic-to-bo...
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