That car was a lead-acid,-powered car, and was therefore very short range and the batteries were persnickety and dangerous. Bush called the hydrogen car the FreedomCar. The "pedo guy" incident was one thing, but trying to get a former employee swatted simply because he cared about the company and babu88 wanted it to fix a major problem is quite another. You can also get access to our Discord server and some stickers. The battery pack was the core innovation that made Tesla a serious player in the electric vehicle game. Nobody had ever, ever considered taking nearly 7000 cells and putting them all together into a battery pack.