- Read up on LFP. their cycle counts are far higher. and newer high density stuff is coming to market that competes with NMC chemistries from just a few years a

- Read up on LFP. their cycle counts are far higher. and newer high density stuff is coming to market that competes with NMC chemistries from just a few years ago, and they are safer and more stable chemically, so less safety systems, so any density difference gets made up at the pack level - replacement battery costs will probably drop a LOT in the next ten years. that quoted cost is $200/kWh, but Tesla is at $100/kWh (possibly less). That is a hell of a markup, probably reflects battery supply prioritization to new cars (Tesla gets more money if you buy a new Tesla rather than keep an old one running). So lets not treat this as some permanent condition. Sodium Ion batteries should stabilize at somewhere around $50/kWh I would guess, especially if they can get them close to 200 wh/kg, which is on the roadmap. And in 5-10 years there will be some solid state, sodium-sulfur, or lithium-sulfur battery that is even cheaper. - Gas turbines still externalize their carbon emissions aka they don't pay for them. When will that madness change? Who knows. Another example of false economics. The only way I see gas turbines as a good thing is if it keeps the oil wells from burning off their excess methane for absolutely no benefit. Maybe you are some astroturfer or not, but it is really frustrating talking about energy policy over the next 5-10 years and counterarguments are: - this guy for this car got charged this price this one time anecdote that you know perfectly well is not representative of future costs and availability - dude, lets burn more fossil fuels, it's "cheaper", which you know it really isn't - let's talk about essentially outmoded chemistries and their problems, and ignore both current ones and ones that are scaling up production