Tesla’s Worse Nightmare Just Got A Huge Upgrade
The Blade Battery Gen 2.
BYD is Tesla’s Bane. The two companies have entirely different ethos’s, yet have the same goal of dominating the EV world and rendering combustion-engined cars obsolete. While in the US, it might seem like Tesla is massively winning this race, BYD is actually selling more cars globally. This shouldn’t be a surprise, as BYD’s cars are significantly cheaper than Teslas, even when they offer the same or better specs. What’s impressive is that BYD can sell EVs this cheaply, all while having a greater profit margin than Tesla. How can they do this? Well, their revolutionary in-house battery pack, the Blade Battery, is significantly more cost-effective than anything else on the market. In fact, it is so good that BYD has sold and licensed it to almost every major EV manufacturer, such as GM, Hyundai/Kia, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BorgWarner, and even Tesla themselves! That’s right: Tesla is buying their nemesis’s battery over their own “revolutionary” 4680 cells. To say that is a bad sign is an understatement. But it’s about to get worse, as BYD is preparing to launch the Gen 2 Blade Battery.
Okay, let’s start at the beginning. What exactly is the BYD Blade Battery? And why is it so damn good? Well, The idea behind the Blade Battery is to make cheaper LFP batteries as good as the lithium-ion ones we…
