But: “They are simply not yet ready for mass production,” says one of the experts. Tesla may have a hard time fully rolling out the dry-coating process before the end of the year, and could even take as long as 2023. Elon Musk was overly optimistic, says Stan Whittingham, co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries and 2019 Nobel Prize winner. “I think he’ll solve the problem, but it won’t happen as quickly as he would like. It will take some time to test it extensively.”
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