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Elon Musk: “Carbon fiber is roughly 50 times the cost of steel.”

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The problem with carbon fibers is that material cost is still very high. So it's about 50 times. Particularly if you go for a high strength, specialized Carbon fiber is roughly 50 times the cost of steel. And at least in theory it would be lighter. People generally think of steel as being heavy and carbon fiber as being light. (1:56:08–1:56:19)

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