experience tinkering with electric cars probably in California. I mean, he was among the most experienced because it was still kind of a new world. And they set out to do this. And one of the really big problems that they got in immediately came upon was these batteries. So let's maybe this is a good time to talk about kind of the batteries. So lithium ion batteries really first became popular camcorders and laptops. And these batteries at that point were thinking about finger size tubes. And the idea for Tesla was that they were going to use thousands of these strung together to create what we call a battery pack. And that would provide the amount of energy needed to propel the car. And the bet was that by buying thousands of these cells per car for hundreds of thousands of cars, this would give us the great buying power and be able to bring the price down. And on top of that, this was a proven kind of technology already. And, you know, that they didn't have to go out and invent (22/40)
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