Battery technology is under very heavy development.
They have come a very long way. We don’t see many electric golf carts these days. They are all battery.
Electric cars have a long way to go. But they will get there. When they get there, we will probably like it.
Plenty of stuff to go around. Perhaps they need to mine an asteroid or two.
Never thought we would see rockets that could land themselves. Elon has done wonders for the rocket industry.
Hopefully Boeing gets it together. We need 3-5 rocket companies not one.
look at how far cell phones have come. Each new phone as been far superior to the last. There was a reason that there were lines around the block every time a new Apple iPhone came out... and it wasn’t because they were ‘slowing the phones’. It because the new phones were that much better.
There are very smart people working on about 10,000 different ways to make batteries better. We still have to build in the infrastructure. We have to get enough power to power all these devices. We have to get the infrastructure in place to deliver all that power. When it gets there, it will be awesome. Then I might finally get one.
What luddites fail to grasp as they rant on their pocket supercomputer made possible only by lithium ion battery technology is that power storage is the future regardless of EVs. Everything technology based in the last two decades has needed higher and higher density power cells. Smart phones ,tablets ,laptops ,medical devices simply could not exist without the power density of lithium ion cells no other prior technology has anywhere close to it’s power density. New higher density cells are coming it’s a trillion dollar industry that the world literally runs on. New batter tech is coming regardless of EVs they are along for the ride. Drones , AI robots , humanoid worker robots all need very high density power cells, every consumer electronics device as well.
No; they will not get there. And the pollution that is incurred to “get there” is far, far worse than what we have now with internal combustion engines.
And vastly inferior to a computer as regards what the latter can do.
“look at how far cell phones have come. Each new phone as been far superior to the last.”
That’s a load of crap. The new ones do more stuff, but if you want a phone to use as a phone with an excellent connection, dig that Motorola flip phone out of your drawer.
Of course you can’t use it because it hasn’t had all the spyware embedded in it.