Aakash Gupta
@aakashgupta · Mar 7, 2026
This is a 7-year, $218M bet finally paying off.
Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies in 2019 for one reason: dry electrode IP. Then spent 5 years in what Musk himself called “incredibly difficult” production hell trying to make it work at scale. The L&F supply contract collapsed 99.
Ming@tslaming· Mar 7, 2026BREAKING 🚨 @Tesla HAS ENGINEERED A SYNCHRONIZED MULTI-ROLL CALENDERING MACHINE THAT USES DIFFERENTIAL ROLLER SPEEDS TO EFFORTLESSLY TURN DELICATE DRY POWDERS INTO CONTINUOUS BATTERY ELECTRODES 🔋
For years, mastering the "dry battery electrode" has been the holy grail of
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Tesla patents are open source. We do patents to block the trolls, not because we need protection from competitors.
08:59 PM · March 7, 2026 · 325.9K views
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