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TIL -30C is “extreme cold”, here that is just called Tuesday.
Yeah that checks out. I'd get excited for sodium batteries if the cold weather performance is even half right.
Sodium and hopefully solid state. If they ever get solid state figured out and affordable, will make every current EV obsolete overnight.
Certainly not. Batteries will be introduced into a few models and slowly gain market share while production is scaled up over a few years. If they're really that much better, they'll be in luxury cars first and part of the price tag, slowly working their way down the model palette. If a company patented a crucial technology for manufacturing, they'll have a monopoly but won't be able to scale quickly, slowing down adoption further. These things don't just happen overnight, so current battery types will remain relevant for years, guaranteed.
I'm still fine with my lithium batteries. I still expect to get 250k miles out of it. If for some reason the car outlasts the batteries, I'm gonna look at a better chemistry replacement and a BMS upgrade.