{"id":16784,"date":"2017-05-16T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16784"},"modified":"2017-05-16T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T04:08:06","slug":"electric-vehicle-battery-cost-dropped-80-in-6-years-down-to-227kwh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16784","title":{"rendered":"Electric vehicle battery cost dropped 80% in 6 years down to $227\/kWh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tesla is among the automakers staying ahead of the trend. While McKinsey projects that battery pack prices will be below $190\/kWh by the end of the decade, Tesla claims to be below $190\/kWh since early 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s how the automaker manages to achieve close to 30% gross margin on its flagship electric sedan, the Model S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/01\/30\/electric-vehicle-battery-cost-dropped-80-6-years-227kwh-tesla-190kwh\/\">Electric vehicle battery cost dropped 80% in 6 years down to $227\/kWh \u2013 Tesla claims to be below $190\/kWh | Electrek<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is among the automakers staying ahead of the trend. While McKinsey projects that battery pack prices will be below $190\/kWh by the end of the decade, Tesla claims to be below $190\/kWh since early 2016. That\u2019s how the automaker &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[790,1410,1401],"class_list":["post-16784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-batteries","tag-electric-cars","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16785,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions\/16785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}