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Demand far outstrips manufacturing capacity at the moment. For batteries not put in EVs a slightly lower price will get them installed in grid storage solution

• AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  YEah 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    They have. The very first chart in the article clearly shows that. Demand just keeps increasing, too.