This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide
A long but very worthwhile read for anyone wanting to understand the electrification industry.
We all dream of electric open source vehicles and public transit!
Like electric bicycles with controllers that can be easily swapped, programmed, and tinkered with?
Should've put a fourth line to make sure we understand the drop
Buy SLDP. Solid state battery company It's the next big thing.
I see that bitchy downvoters are a thing here just like on Reddit. Anyone who thinks solid state batteries are not the next big thing is simply wrong.
It absolutely is the next big thing. Whether SLDP ends up being a brilliant investment is obviously a much more complicated question.
The price of the batteries was never really the issue, it was their weight versus their capacity with some consideration towards size and robustness.
As far as I can tell, today the biggest hurdle is charging.
The energy density steadily increased over time while prices decreased: This article includes some interesting background info and the following chart.
It should be pointed out that those two changes are very much not equal. Energy density has only increased by a factor of ~5, whereas cost has fallen by a factor of ~90 (by eye).
