• dave@feddit.uk
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    22 hours ago

    How is $2.9bn to $7k a 99% cut? It’s far closer to a 100% cut…

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            9 hours ago

            A 99% reduction from $2.9 billion is $29 million. On the scale from $0 to $29 million, $7,386 is much closer to $0, so it’s more accurate to say the deal was cut by 100% unless you want to quote it with several decimal places.

            It’s 99.9997% to 4 places.

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    22 hours ago

    In a regulatory filing today, L&F revealed that the contract’s value has been written down to just $7,386.

    No, that is not a typo. $2.9 billion to roughly $7,400.

    L&F did not explicitly state the reason for the cut, citing only a “change in supply quantity,” but the dots are easy to connect. The high-nickel cathode was destined for Tesla’s 4680 cells, and the primary consumer of those cells is the Cybertruck