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Battery production is going to be a bottleneck for a very long time. There are 1.2 billion vehicles in the world. Renewables are already starting to produce en
by reitzensteinm 8y ago
Battery production is going to be a bottleneck for a very long time. There are 1.2 billion vehicles in the world.
Renewables are already starting to produce enough power that storage is already a necessity - famously in the case of the Tesla SA battery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Separately subsidizing EVs and grid storage in this circumstance is insane. You're only getting half the use out of the very expensive batteries you're purchasing today.
At some point, batteries are cheap and plentiful enough that you don't have to attempt dual use, but at that point you're not subsidizing them any more, so that's not relevant to your original argument or my response to it.
(Though my wording was poor; the "ever" was meant to refer specifically to subsidies on grid scale storage, which I believe will never make sense.)