“’We have achieved in the lab 5,000 to 10,000 charge cycles in a battery’s lifetime, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 charging cycles for even the best in class now, “
Tesla has demonstrated a battery that has gone 2,000 cycles with no degradation in capacity. Based on an expected life of 13,000 cycles they are projecting 100 years/ 1 million miles.
Musk says when your car wears out, you can get a new one and put your old battery in it!
The laws of physics must be obeyed regardless how you store the energy. ( be it chemical energy or electricity) It will take a given amount to transport 4,000 pounds of cargo and car to go from one point to another. Sucking that energy out of the grid and then storing it in a battery in less than 5 minutes would be an incredible feat. What possibly could go wrong? If everyone charges at night those pretty fireworks will be transformers exploding throughout the grid. The electrical distribution system would collapse.
“Based on an expected life of 13,000 cycles they are projecting 100 years/ 1 million miles.”
If that gets into the mass market then I’m on board with batteries, assuming it’s safe and isn’t too expensive.