Ya, that's magical lab only numbers and you know it. Find me a single company boasting those numbers right now, not in the future and I'll ceed the point.

I wrote a long response but reddit made it disappear. Things of note were only 1.3 mil were EV, the rest were hybrid. The last three ish years are the results of a long leadup in production capacity with insane production numbers 50%+ higher every year. And a few other things. It was mostly saying that I went too high but your is too low. I did screw up using total EV's and not looking at the last few years production.

No one is saying 30 years. Most are talking from 8 to 20 at the high end.

Ok. And the people who live in the country, you know those rural areas where we grow the food. How do they travel and bring the food to market? How do they plant and harvest? The ships that transport the food to places that can't grow it. The fishing boats that provide fish. The trucks that move the food from the port to the train or market. The mining equipment used to mine resources that we use to make things.

Ahh I see, you're a let the world starve to death type. Just remember, you aren't rich, you would feel the pinch also. Starving causes people to reevaluate everything. And start wars.

Ya, I had the same problem. But I was reading that it did super well in hot environments. So we at least know the battery will work well in industry, not so well in the winter.

All I am seeing is hype and guessing. You have any sources confirming it's power source or just guessing from auto magazine's like I read.

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No, they are still firmly in the lab from everything I read. Do you have a source saying otherwise?

So in the next ten years, the EU is going to revolutionize the sodium battery. Fix it's charging cycle problems, lower it's weight low enough to even fit in EV's. Because so far no car uses it due to it sucking for anything mobile. Set up nigh on hundreds of factories to bring them to market in the millions.

No, in ten years we might start to see them be small enough to put in EV's in a lab maybe. More likely applications like city busses if you're lucky. But in no way will an industry exist even alongside lithium batteries to support this fiction.

So, the EU has about 300 million cars. Rounding up, about 6 million are EV. So about 1 in every 50 cars are EV's. Let's say the average lifespan of a car is 10 years. That's also about how long between battery pack changes on EV's.

So the EU alone, in 10 years is going to need 50 times more batteries per year. You are asking the Democratic republic of the congo to increase it's production of colbalt by 5000% in 10 years just to supply the EU. And that's if no other countries like China or the US decide to use ANY more lithium batteries for ANYTHING then they do right now. If you want a nice depressing subject to learn about, look up child labor in colbalt mines. It accounts for between 15-30% of your clean lithium batteries you love so much.

I'm sorry, no established industry in the history of anything has grown that fast. But Greta has a heck of a bridge to nowhere to sell you. I love green energy, but this stupidity is not helping.

You know how they keep talking about dead Russian troops. But you never see any bodies. Its best to just not ask.

Wait, I remember learning that babies reacted negatively to discordant music like 25 years ago. Why is this article acting like this is a new find?