Batteries are getting better, but we'll almost certainly never reach the fantasy of replacing petrochemicals with batteries 1:1. Instead, what we can do is chan

Batteries are getting better, but we'll almost certainly never reach the fantasy of replacing petrochemicals with batteries 1:1. Instead, what we can do is change our patterns of energy consumption and then we'll start to feel the gains from battery improvement in a more visceral way. Different technologies are just different. Improvements to batteries will make them a little better at being dropped in as a gasoline replacement, but exponentially better at use cases designed with the lifecycles and energy densities that batteries can comfortably support.