is Already controlled today in the car a lot electronically. However, for each component, there has been a own control. So a modern VW or Audi does not have an on-Board computer, but 80 to 100. This has the following advantages, because different suppliers can independently develop their systems. The disadvantage is that key Updates are possible and all the individual parts fit. Tesla 596,80 EUR -20,80 (-3,37%) Tradegate

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Tesla how to do it differently: In a Test of the Japanese "Nikkei Asian Review" was now a Model 3 will be completely disassembled. The heart, the Central electronic control unit, impressed the experts most of all. "We would not manage", said an engineer of the not-mentioned Japanese car manufacturer.

Classic car manufacturers still need to 2025

"Hardware 3" is the name of the wonder weapon. It consists of two Chips that power everything in the car, which needs a Computer from the Infotainment System up to wizard for Autonomous Driving. Tesla has developed the processors and updating of the Software is also mobile without a car must drive owner in a workshop.

Such Central control units shall be considered as the future of the car industry, especially when it comes to self-driving cars. Classic car maker is not working, expected before 2025 in order to be able to their own chipsets ready for production use. Tesla would have a technology lead of five to six years.

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Tesla is negotiating cobalt-free batteries

The onboard computer is not the only area in which the U.S. car maker sets new standards. Tesla is, according to the Reuters news Agency in talks on a new supply contract with the Chinese battery manufacturer CATL. The is currently behind Panasonic is number 2 in the market for electric car batteries, and could pull with the new customers in the Japanese competitors in the past.

The highlight of the batteries of CATL: you no longer contain the controversial cobalt. The metal is about mined in the Congo under inhumane conditions, often by children. Other battery manufacturers obtain their cobalt from other parts of the world, such as Australia. Tesla, whose batteries had already been with two per cent, the lowest cobalt-proportion of all manufacturers, is now coming out even without the metal.

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should know in a Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries

Tesla wants to build a so-called Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries. This is a variant of the today's popular Lithium-ion batteries. These are usually somewhat weaker than Lithium-ion batteries with cobalt, for it is set in you no free oxygen, which reduces the risk that the battery will ignite. They also have a higher degree of efficiency and can be charged with higher charging currents.

What is likely to play for Tesla after a year of negotiations with CATL also have a role to: Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries are to be at least ten percent cheaper than conventional batteries. However it is still unclear which models Tesla, the new battery would like to use and whether in the medium term, all cars should be equipped with it.

however, it is Probable that the new batteries will be installed in all models of Tesla's. CEO Elon Musk had already been promised in 2018 to the public, to reduce in the medium term, the cobalt-use of his company to "almost nothing". Tesla will be holding in April, an Event that its future strategy will aim to announce – it's quite possible that by then, new Details are known.

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As commented on the FOCUS Online readers of the post:

"only that the control of the Tesla vehicles was centralised, is looking to the future. In each modern vehicle is home to several kilometers of cable are normally installed. Tesla is reduced to a few hundred meters. Thus, the complexity is reduced and the vehicles are easier (apart from the battery). What is not there, causing no initial cost, can not be broken, also needs no maintenance and creates no additional costs."

"Well, our engineers and experts are astound quickly."We would not manage" - that doesn't surprise me, really!"

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Date Of Update: 28 February 2020, 13:00