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only a few hundred iphones you know can provide enough cobalt to make a new tesla battery pack really you know it's it's a difference in the chemistry used in in consumer electronics devices that are very cobalt intensive relative to you know ev or powerwall type batteries that are really very efficient with cobalt so that that's one of the really compelling reasons to do that
it kind of brought us to our knees you know for for you know a good year or two in the midst of that whole thing um you know it was all hands on deck you know the whole company was pulled into this you know every every level of you know engineering and and you know every other function for that matter um i mean i pretty much you know moved to nevada in those days and you know camped out at the gigafactory and you know did everything i possibly could do to to make batteries possible and battery p
i don't think it would have happened as fast and i think you know we may still be you know bumbling along if tesla had had failed as you said somewhere in one of those production ramps s or even three um you know i just think it would have taken much longer and and the world wouldn't be as far along as we are now and we'd have to do the electric truck you think they would be doing it now or they would do it 10 20 years from now hard to predict i you know i i i'm pretty sure it would have been la
i 100 agree i mean we the we've passed the the threshold here the tipping point or whatever analogy you want to use you know there's there's no um there's no going back and you know there'll there'll still be bumps along the road i mean it's it's sobering to realize or remember you know what a small percent of the fleet is still electrified i mean we're still you know broadly in single digit percents maybe approaching 10 you know depending on which region but um you know we've got a long way to
the cost of the original battery pack in that roadster was somewhere in the forty thousand dollar range fifty thousand dollar range if i remember correctly yeah it was in that ballpark it was you know close to a thousand dollars a kilowatt hour wow so i think 53 and change kilowatt hours in the first generation roadster and uh yeah probably around fifty to fifty five thousand dollars something in there just for the battery pack
lithium-ion batteries you know were commercialized in about the year 2000 for laptops um sony did that you know it was bleeding edge you know then and you know three years later tesla starts and you know four or five years later uh you know we're building them into the first roadster next to you so you know that that was it it was that sort of beginning of you know the that decade that uh you know presented that kind of opportunity and before that you just couldn't make a modern electric car the