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The price per kWh was dropping faster BEFORE mass market cars than after. It is not that we lacked the technology to build cheap batteries. It is that we lack t
by btilly 3y ago
The price per kWh was dropping faster BEFORE mass market cars than after. It is not that we lacked the technology to build cheap batteries. It is that we lack the technology to scale them.
Tesla is ahead of the curve. Their aggressive efforts on supply chains and factories have reduced the cost of batteries for them relative to everyone else. But the end result is not a change in which technology will win. Instead it is a question of getting there a single digit number of years earlier.
- nickik 3y agoInitially there was a bunch of low hanging fruits, as we were going into the 2010 it was increasingly hard to improve batteries and required lots of investment. You also needed investment for supply chain built up, increasing lithium mining and refining, cobalt mining and refining.