It’s a serious comment, cobalt prices ballooned due to sudden demand, but it’s still only about 2x more expensive than tin, but it is 1000x cheaper than say platinum that goes into ICE cars and hydrogen cars.

Why? Lithium Ion already doesn’t require any expensive metals. And as long as lithium ion continues to improve, it’s hard for any technology to replace it. Because it has to not beat lithium ion of today, but the cheaper and better lithium ion of tomorrow.

LFP is nice and all but it isn’t as energy dense. You can still achieve a 200 mile car with it, but not 300-400 miles (EPA).

Work from home should be made permanent. It’s been doing very well for my family and friends. Many of them who have been on meds to deal with headaches don’t need them anymore, they can get more sleep and less stress from the commute.

I want to supply Wooden Clubs to the military until the year 50,345.

Well, some apartments do have dedicated parking, and many states are passing laws preventing HOA from denying installations of chargers.

Why not use fusion to assist hamsters to run on wheels while we are at it?

The refueling hydrogen in a minute or 2 is a myth. The 1st car might refuel that fast, but keeping the pressure at 10,000psi is hard. This is why you see lines at the hydrogen stations of people taking an hour to fill up only to get stuck at half the range. And BEVs can recharge to 80% in 30 minutes. Soon it will be…

There are a few reasons for that.

1) But the battery suppliers are closed too, so it’s still a supply issue.

Slowing? Base on what? Seems to be quite on track to me:

1) Fuel Cells will never reach 90% due to theoretical limits. So yes, they can never be as efficient as batteries.

1) The drop in EV sales wasn’t that large YoY, and considering that average EVs have more kwh in them, the drop is clearly in supply more than demand. Even the manufacturers themselves are saying there is a supply issue.

I thought ev was much heavier than hydrogen since it needs to pack a lot of batteries. Toyota mirai weights 4,075lb while Tesla model s hovers around 4,833-4,941lb.

lol, you are aware Tesla sales are up YTD YoY right? Even with COVID. That isn’t just from early adopters.

The current fuel cell technology is PEM fuel cells, which go back to the 1966 GM Electrovan. They technology has been improving SLOWLY. In comparison, lithium ion based cars appeared in the 2000s.

1) Closing manufacturing plants means less supply, not demand.

1) The automakers are shut down as well, so it’s still a supply issue.

Hydrogen is the end game when we break fusion, hydrogen fuel cells though are not. That said I doubt anyone will let you put a fusion generator in your car anyways so we’d still be running on something like batteries.

But crashing electric vehicle sales because of the pandemic also hit the battery market, where, for the first time ever, demand is expected to fall this year.