2014 in Materials: Rhubarb Batteries, the Gigafactory, and Printing Body Parts

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The best bet for low-cost electric-car batteries may be Tesla Motors' "gigafactory ," which the car maker started constructing this summer in Nevada. The factory will use sheer scale to drive down the cost of batteries with fairly conventional lithium-ion chemistry-plans call for its annual production of lithium-ion batteries to match that of all other worldwide producers combined.

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