Elon Musk Hails ‘Major’ Battery Chemistry Breakthrough By Tesla Which Could Cut Down Costs: ‘Incredibly Difficult’
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk He praised Tesla’s breakthrough in the new dry electrode process in Lithium battery production.
In a post published on social media platform X on Saturday, the user @tslaming He shared Tesla’s patent application showing that it uses an updated battery chemistry by incorporating the dry electrode process in its production.
BREAKING NEWS 🚨 TESLA LOCKS THE “SECRET RECIPE” OF DRY ELECTRODE PRODUCTION 🔒
For years, the battery industry believed that mass production of dry electrodes was impossible; this was a lab trick that didn’t scale.
Patent application published on January 29, 2026… https://t.co/1NJjqHkDY9 pic.twitter.com/PtMBILPrUf
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Responding to the post, Musk welcomed the breakthrough on Sunday. “Making the dry electrode process, a major breakthrough in lithium battery manufacturing technology, work at scale was incredibly difficult,” the billionaire shared.
A major breakthrough in lithium battery manufacturing technology, the dry electrode process has been incredibly difficult to make work at scale.
Congratulations @Tesla For this excellent service, our engineering, production and supply chain teams and strategic partner suppliers…
Tesla’s official X branch contributed to outlining the benefits of this breakthrough on Sunday, sharing that the dry electrode process helps simplify factories while reducing costs and energy use. The process also “significantly” increases scalability, Tesla said.
Dry electrode fabrication reduces cost, energy use and factory complexity while significantly increasing scalability https://t.co/z7NCaTR03S
Simply put, the dry electrode process does not require a wet solvent as follows: N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) poses a significant risk to the environment and human health.
Instead of coating the electrode with wet solvent, the dry electrode process coats the electrode with active materials directly through heat or pressure, which then helps ions move from the cathode to the anode and vice versa.
