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why aren't consumers seeing this price yet?
by tonymet 3y ago
why aren't consumers seeing this price yet?
- cogman10 3y agoDemand far outstrips manufacturing capacity at the moment. For batteries not put in EVs a slightly lower price will get them installed in grid storage solutions. Consumers will be the last to see lower prices while demand outpaces supply.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoYEah it's been frustrating. Those two stroke horror shows in leafblowing/lawnmowing/etc need to be cycled out, but e-tools are still priced as luxury. I'm hoping in about 5 years, especially with sodium ion in production, that changes. The really cool thing about battery production is that it's not like an ICE engine where you have to design an ICE for this size application and an ICE for that size application: the batteries can be used in a leaf blower, a moped, a car, a truck, or a massive grid. The battery supply can be routed wherever needed. That should result in a vastly cheaper overall industry than the ICE drivetrain industry. Sure you need different electric motors, but those aren't THAT different, and the industrial world has already been building all the necessary sizes and variations for a century now.
- bmicraft 3y agoI really don't get how battery manufacturers have have the better part of a decade of with batteries sold pretty much before they've been manufactured and still haven't scaled up to capture that demand
- ceejayoz 3y agoThey have. The very first chart in the article clearly shows that. Demand just keeps increasing, too.
- antisthenes 3y agoWhy would they? Companies will gladly pocket the difference between what they charge the customers and their $100/KWh bulk price.
- thinkcontext 3y agoWhat do you mean? In the past year there have been substantial price cuts in many markets, particularly in the US. The price gap between the average EV and average ICE has also closed could considerably.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agohttps://electrek.co/2023/10/05/tesla-prices-keep-dropping-model-3-y-now-at-cheapest-prices-ever/ https://electrek.co/2023/10/05/tesla-prices-keep-dropping-mo... they are.
- bmicraft 3y agoTesla is both a luxury car brand and the single most unreliable brand. The masses need an actually cheap and reliable ev, not whatever this is.
- goodSteveramos 3y agoThis is Tesla's margins collapsing because of less than forcasted demand for luxury vehicles. Battery prices have dropped much more slowly than the prices of EVs.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoThey're the only ones who have been mass producing EVs for more than a few years. Sure it's their margins decreasing, but that's because the decreased cost of batteries mean that other car makers were finally offering competitive offerings, in part due to the accumulated decrease in battery price since the original models were released.