The article is incorrect when it states that the 10 minute charge is at your home.

A charging station (if/when they ever get built) would have such a connection. Many industrial buildings already have such connections. I work at a new car dealer in the service dept. We use 480v 3 phase for our air compressors, vehicle hoists, and some int/ext lighting.

Getting it put in your home garage though, would take some doing. It may be against code and/or zoning to put it in a residential garage.

The number you got from $75,000 is from the first order of 10 packs sold to Phoenix for $750,000 for 10 battery packs. That covers so much more than just the 10 packs.

They pass off a lot of the development costs to the consumer and the consumer gets the publicity, and a guarantee of delivery and other related technology along with warranties I’m sure.

It might cost more, it might cost less, right now Altair is still in the process of setting up their production facilities. I doubt they know what the pack will cost to make let alone sell for.

When they have a price on their site then we’ll know at what price they’re selling to consumers at. The materials shouldn’t cost more than a few thousand at most. A normal typical Lith-ion 15 kwh pack using off the shelf single cells would be about $4,500, and that’s selling to the public price, I’m sure their cost to produce is lower than that.

I don’t know how complicated manufacturing is, it seems like if it was too complicated they wouldn’t say they can produce thousands.

Pure Swag would put the cost of a 15kwh to produce at $10k, so after a couple of years of premium costs I’d expect it to sell for $15k.

I don’t know, but I don’t believe anyone does right now. I’ve got my fingers crossed for EESTOR, they keep saying this year and I’ll believe them until they miss the deadline.