[brownsfan]

The econazis are clever, and climate change fear is pervasive.

My progressive son just informed me the other day that even though EVs are inefficient, and as heavy as a ice car and a half, that there is hope!

Battery makers are developing new improved batteries that are lighter, more energy dense, and charge faster.

Yeah, right.

[Jonty30]

The newest batteries does not solve the problem of energy density. The closer you push electrons together, the more costly it becomes to keep them together, not to mention dangerous.

I suspect that there is going to be a hard limit to this that cannot be overridden, even if you had god level knowledge of maximizing energy density in batteries.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ask him where electricity for EVs comes from.

[Svartalfiar]

Battery makers are developing new improved batteries that are lighter, more energy dense, and charge faster.

Yeah, right.

Your progressive son is correct. The problem though is that, outside of a significant new breakthrough/discovery, that lighter, denser, faster is only happening in very small increments, and with current tech, is very close to topping out. Physically, chemically, electrically, there is no way to double the energy storage for the same weight/volume of battery. Or even get 50 or 30% improvements. Eventually we might get 10% improvement, so maybe +30 miles per full charge. Not +100.