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> No, phosphate is vastly cheaper than battery metals Lithium used to be cheap. Is not anymore. Phosphate will go same route. That's the whole point.
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
> No, phosphate is vastly cheaper than battery metals
Lithium used to be cheap. Is not anymore. Phosphate will go same route. That's the whole point.
- ajross 4y agoI repeat: if phosphate was so expensive as to make a significant portion of the material cost of a LiFePO4 battery, then we would have long since starved for lack of crops. Relative to food, batteries are an extraordinarily expensive luxury good.