Bloomberg New Energy Finance indicated that the current price is $689 per kWh. So, the McKinsey number for today's pack is another indication that $600 is in the right range. Using $600 per kWh, the LEAF's 24-kWh battery pack would cost Nissan $14,400.But at McKinsey's predicted $160 rate in 2025, that same pack would cost Nissan only $3,840, a dramatic reduction of $10,560.'ve been tracking lithium ion prices for some time, and it appears that some kind of consensus is forming. Alan Mulually, Ford's CEO earlier this year pegged the lithium battery cost in the Focus Electric at between about $520 and $650 per kilowatt hour.
Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  temptation, enticement(noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce. 2  temptation(noun) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid. 3  enticement, temptation(noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.
TEMPT, v.t. L. tento; teneo; Gr. the primary sense is to strain, urge, press. 1. To incite or solicit to an evil act; to entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement. My lady Gray tempts him to this harsh extremity. Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.