RE: Inside Tesla's 1,000-pound battery pack
Cool video, but one nit to pick. Nissan's "Altra" was Lithium Ion
powered back in 1998. I don't think it was ever offered widely for
lease or sale. AC Propulsion also converted one of their tZero
prototypes to Lithium Ion in 2003.
Neither of these cars were as refined or as successful as the Tesla
roadster, but it's not correct to say that Tesla was the first to use
Li+ in an EV.