All this huge R&D money flowing to better batteries. But we only need better EV batteries because the government is fully bought into the climate change hoax and CO2 is evil line. Even if you converted 100% of all automobiles worldwide to electric, the CO2 savings are inconsequential and the impact on climate less than inconsequential.
This is a perfect example of what Bjorn Lomborg described in “The Skeptical Environmentalist.” The huge money flowing to the climate scam (including battery R&D) means that the same money is not available for much more important things like clean water, housing, food, and education around the world.
“Could” May”
The article is riddled with pie in the sky enthusiasm.
I will go out on a limb and say NOPE it won’t.
I think Battery powered vehicles were around in the 1940’s, but they weighed too much to be practical.
Today, a modern EV, it’s a totally different environment.
I drive an EV. It gets 350 miles per charge.
I will never have a:
Antifreeze leak.
Oil change.
Bad spark plug.
Tune up.
Transmission leak.
Power steering leak.
Leaky valve.
Leaky rings.
Transmission failure.
Clogged fuel injector.
Air filter change.
Fuel filter change.
New engine.
The list goes on and on.
Will I need a battery? Yes. Put it up on a lift, drop the old one out, put the new one in. Brand new. Not a big deal.
I would much rather have to replace a battery than put a rebuilt engine in the car. Engine, 5K, Trans, 5K. Battery, 10K.
People laughed at flat screen TV’s 20 years ago and laugh at EV’s today. Let them laugh.
I don’t care that a coal fired plant fuels my car. I like warm weather, and if burning coal makes it warmer, all the better. But I think it’s all BS.
The smart phone you likely typed your post from, the tablet you watch Netflix on and the laptop you take with to do work on remotely all have lithium ion batteries in them. The fact is none of those devices would exist without lithium ion batteries in them no other battery tech has the energy density to enable such devices. Anything th at increases the energy density and or safety of lithium ion batteries has immediate and lasting impact on every day life regardless of EVs.
My house will never be dark in a power outage again,nor can the dotgovs ever turn the power off with a few clicks of a mouse. They can do the same to the gas grid in seconds cutting the main valves off at the city gate level. They cannot turn off that giant thermonuclear reactor in the sky and it showers 220 days a year at this location my roof and back property with hundreds of thousands of watts a second. My system intercepts and converts 15,000 of those into electricity and then either power the house, pushes the grid meter backwards for a profit or charges a Powerwall in the garage that I am demoing for a colleague and their company. Basically torture testing it to see how it holds up to cycle life and fast discharges it’s 30kWh net capacity from 80/20 DOD and I have cycled it at 1.5C rates the limit of what the inverters will output not the panel with is a 300amp service line. That powerwall will also benefit from solid state batteries it would drop the levelized cost of storage (LCOS) which is always a good thing economically. If I decided to buy a powerwall from my friends company it won’t be for purely economics it will be a prepper expense that also benefits the energy budget in peak demand times. If you can buy a kWh at 4cents or less off peak and sell it back at 80+ cents on peak and it costs you 20cents to store it LCOS that’s a net profit win there. Based on the current cycle life expectation of these second lper cells the LCOS is around 18 cents kWh. It’s irrelevant from a prepper stance as any kWh is priceless in a blackout being able to take solar output and use it at night w/o the grid is worth every penny spent on that ability if you can afford that penny.
Point is even when the sun is down and the grid is down I have 30,000 watt hours of power to use at my hearts desire. It’s a freedom thing something that surprises me how much the older luddites poo poo home solar and then say I’m independent kinda person all chest out. Uh no you are not if you genrac needs the gas grid you are a slave to the gas grid. Full disclosure I also have a 15,000 watt trifuel commercial rated generator that is hooked to the gas grid. Why because NG is one third the price of propane and the last blackout the gas grid stayed up barely still the febs at a whim could click click and bring down the gas grid in a few seconds, the remaining pressure in the mains would give a few minutes at most of gas then poof.
The sun will rise in the east tomorrow and every other day for at least a billion more years and short of some evil billionaire putting up a solarsail at L1 you simply cannot turn off El Sol.