Average price of a new Battery powered car is $60,000.
ICE cars can be had for half that price. Heck one can buy a Chevy Spark for well under $20,000.
Another thing of concern is battery life and cost of replacement battery. My 11 year old Chevy HHR is running just fine with origianl battery! I want to buy a replacement battery, but the car still starts at the flick of the ignition key. So I keep postponing battery replacement.
Still need lithium and still need ions.
Advances like this are amazing. There has been more progress in Lithium battery chemistry and manufacturing in the last 20 years; than we have seen in battery storage in over 100 yrs. And it’s only getting more interesting
The Holy Grail of ultimate solutions is still out there
Meanwhile amount of charge planning and battery thermal conditioning makes existing LNMC chemistries durable. Million mile batteries are being demonstrated with maybe 12% loss of capacity.
i wonder how much effort it’d take to repurpose e-car batteries into home batterypacks for solarcells?