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Today (23rd) early in our time, Tesla, the world's number one electric vehicle company, held an event to unveil its new technology.

Like a car theater, shareholders watched the event on-site while riding Tesla electric vehicles, sometimes honking their horns in the car.

At this meeting, CEO Elon Musk said he would release a half-price electric car within three years.

The reason why electric vehicles that do not have an engine and have a relatively simple structure are expensive because of the price of the battery, and he announced that he would develop a cheaper and better battery.

However, there is no groundbreaking content, so there is also an evaluation like'There was nothing to eat at the rumored party'.

Today's event was watched live by 270,000 people around the world.

This shows that the electric vehicle and battery market is a future food with tremendous growth potential.



This is Kwon Ae-ri.



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Tesla's vision, as revealed by Elon Musk, is to deliver a half-price electric vehicle for three years with a battery with improved performance and lower price.



It is our aspiration that if we develop a battery that focuses on maximizing battery productivity, has a capacity and output that is five or six times the current and has a mileage of 16% longer, we can open the era of electric vehicles with less than 30 million won in our money.



[Elon Musk/Tesla CEO: There has not been a really affordable (self-driving electric) car yet.

We will have such a car in the future.

But to be able to do that, you have to lower the cost of the battery and improve the manufacturing capacity a bit more.]



It also announced that it will release a pilot version of the fully autonomous vehicle within the next month.



Investors were disappointed by the fact that groundbreaking new technologies were not unveiled and long-term targeting was dominated.



Tesla's share price plummeted even from over-the-counter transactions, evaporating 58 trillion won in market cap in one day.



The domestic battery industry, which is ahead of its competitiveness, is also assessing that it was not a plan to be threatened immediately.



[Hwang Seong-Hyun/Researcher Eugene Investment & Securities: We believe that domestic battery companies are also doing technology development, and there was no threat in that area.]



However, according to the battery production roadmap disclosed by Tesla, Korea has secured battery production capacity within a few years. , It is expected to reduce dependence on Chinese battery makers.



In the EV and battery markets, which are emerging as the core of future food, fierce innovation competition to achieve both performance improvement and cost reduction is expected to accelerate.



(Video editing: Kim Jong-tae)