"The better approach would be to abandon lithium-ion for a superior battery technology." There have been dozens or hundreds or thousands of companies and teams

"The better approach would be to abandon lithium-ion for a superior battery technology." There have been dozens or hundreds or thousands of companies and teams and people working on alternatives to li-ion for 20 years. We're arguably not much closer to a "breakthrough" in energy storage. I'm mildly convinced saying 10x batteries are around the corner is analogous to saying a universal cure for AIDS is coming next week. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I can pretty much promise you that no company is going to get that tech, design, produce, scale, and sell enough cars a month from now to be a "black swan" for Tesla.