Copper content in EVs is expected to decline ~11% between 2024 and 2030; this will help make next generation EVs cheaper and lighter. Takeaways: Thrifting, the process where engineering teams continuously improve the efficiency and performance of various components, is leading to reduced copper usage. Major copper savings will come from reduction in thickness of copper foils for battery packs, localized wiring architectures removing hundreds of meters of redundant copper conduits, and introduction of aluminum busbars to replace copper solutions. Fun fact: Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, said that Model S has about 3 km of wiring harnesses, and Tesla brought it down to 1.5 km in length for the Model 3. Tesla’s new wiring architecture for future vehicle platforms aims to bring it down to just 100 meters. Reference Shelf: Visual Capitalist/Benchmark - https://lnkd.in/gNq9wYrV #EV #copper #energytransition #tesla
Interesting analysis, Jesse Atlas. As EV production surges, the demand for copper may still outpace supply, pushing us to rethink recycling strategies. Could this shift potentially drive an industry-wide rethink of material circularity, especially for conductive materials in EVs?
esse, SPE (Single Pair Ethernet) 10Base-T1(100M)/100Base-T1 (40M)/1000Base-T1(40M)will be widely used in EV communication/power transmission/control to replace obsolete CAN/LIN or slow UTP (Twisted Pair)bus/cable system. It will not only reduce copper wiring usage, also increasing transmission speed and power consumption. Cheers!
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5moI read about Rivian saving a lot on copper, interesting read about Tesla figures and to get the complete picture. Thanks for sharing this. I believe next gen EE Architecture for SDVs will be one of the crucial candidates contributing to it.