For automotive use, the biggest issue is energy density by volume. But to be clear, the equation is energy density by volume * efficiency. And in that regard, lithium ion is pretty close. Within 10 years lithium ion(incremental improvements without any breakthroughs) will match gasoline in energy density when…

You are correct, but since statistics do not look at individual causes of fault, the lookout is mostly based on general probability.

To be clear, the statistics size is based on miles traveled. Considering it is within the calculations of it happening, the same size is fine. And as the system gets updated it will continue to improve.

That is nonsense. The majority of people can most definitely charge at home. In the US for example, based on census data only 13% of households are apartments. Which means majority of people in the US at the very least is private housing.

But as mentioned, flow batteries lack energy density. And even if you had a flow battery that was not corrosive, harmful or rare earth, it would still require more maintenance.

Of course something that is dominant is going to reserve the largest amount of investment, and as time goes new technology takes its place. That is a normal transition period, Ford did not start out with a Model T either. So in same way Model S -> Model 3. It is a matter of time, at that point we seem to agree.

They do, but the applications were limited, especially during the world wars which saw a lot of government investment.

I don’t care how much you get paid to troll just an fyi.

1 single accident that lead to death, pretty sure I was clear about that. But even when you are talking about overall accidents, it is still less than the accident rate of an average car.

You are joking right? The government has spent a lot of money investing into ICE. (mostly due to potential use for war)

What impasse? The impasse that lithium ion is just too good for other technologies to beat at the moment?

What is your cellphone, laptop, tablet, watch and etc powered by? That is right batteries. Your car can’t even start without a battery. To call the concept of batteries a bad one just shows how out of touch you really are.

Sorry but you are flat out wrong. It is actually the OPPOSITE.

Sorry you are wrong. Higher capacity is more important than quicker recharge. That is not to say that both would not be nice, but overall when looking at the big picture, capacity dwarfs recharge speed.

It isn’t that current batteries suck, quite the opposite, they are very good. The problem is what they are compared to. Batteries compared to CPUs suck. But overall it is pretty awesome, imagine all that batteries have done for us as a society.

Actually, no a 2X increase would put it about same as gasoline. The issue is first of all NOT energy density by weight but energy density by volume.

You are joking right? First of all, lithium ion has no “rare earth metals” (you are confusing it for NiMH batteries found in hybrids, completely different battery technology). While it has some corrosive things in lithium ion, as a complete battery it is not that corrosive.(unlike lead acid batteries which are)

Is California watching?

That makes no sense. The NHTSA has already said based on their preliminary findings they found no issues. They also have said they see no reason for shutting it off due to a single incident.

All that means is that it stopped running AFTER when they came to it. They did say there was some people claiming they heard noise from the DVD player. Of course its hard to exactly confirm since unlike computers, DVD players do not keep log data.