RE:RE:RE:TESLA LFP So Tesla wanted to build its battery empire and cathode production on a $3 patent from 2020? Let's think out loud.
"Two weeks before Battery Day, Tesla purchased a number of patent applications from Springpower International, a small company based just outside Toronto, for a grand total of $3, according to public records."
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/tesla-taps-tiny-startups-tech-to-build-cheaper-cleaner-batteries/
It is absolutely ridiculous that a global market leader in the field of electric vehicles, such as Tesla, should have aligned its announcements and strategy at Battery Day in September 2020 with these patents in such a short time!!! That was simply not possible in such a short time! How were you supposed to have known at the time whether the Springpower technology even worked and was scalable? That would have simply been a fraud on the investors at the time! Especially when you consider that Battery Day was supposed to have taken place in April 2020!!!
Nano One Materials, on the other hand, had already technologically proven its One ot process at that time (i.e. from 2018) in its pilot plant in Burnaby and had already been able to scale it up!
The Springpower patents were a very, very big smokescreen from Tesla to distract from the only provider of an innovative process technology for cathode production at the time. Namely Nano One Materials. But it is possible that these technologies complement each other rather than exclude each other. After all, Springpower has only ever been highlighted in the area of wastewater treatment. Nothing else! No niobium, no single crystal, no multi-chemical process.
Anything else just doesn't make sense!
According to Dan Blondal, Nano One Materials works with 2 automotive OEMs: Tesla & VW. Both want/wanted to produce batteries in-house at the time. All other manufacturers do not want to do that, or only in cooperation with the established cathode manufacturers. Many of them will also work with Nano One Materials and license the technology. (e.g. Rio Tinto & Arcadium Lithium with Tesla, GM, BMW ...)
We'll see! But Springpower is and remains a scam!