Another day another solid state battery announcement, I mean seriously there's no point in following these videos much anymore until they are actually being used in EV's. It seems every car maker and every country now has their own version, and you have to wonder how many of them are just me-to'ing to keep the investors on their toes and discourage them from taking the money away. So this will be the last solid state battery video I post until there's actually cars out there driving around with them.
We know it's coming, the amount of research and money being invested is staggering, the number of different technologies is equally as staggering, it's the old VHS/Beta wars all over again, one, maybe even a couple, will take the market by storm, I doubt if there will be dozens, this particular sudden announcement from the US is to, well, convenient. With Trump ready to take office and slap on tariffs, with the current bans on CATL, the worlds largest battery maker, with China being the outright winner in the Lithium wars it just seems timed to opportunistically, expect investors to start throwing money at them, but there's a good chance it's more hype than substance!
EV's are coming, maybe slower to Australia than the rest of the world, and that's a damning indictment on our political landscape, but they are coming no matter what Dutton seems to think.
Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
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stevebrooks
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Re: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
Hydrogen fuel cell cars, the cars of the future......ok stop laughing, people are hurting. Hydrogen fuel for these cars cost $12 per kilogram in 2021, so with all the new cars and infrastructure using hydrogen that's surely dropped right? Well, it now costs $36 a kilogram, and there are fewer hydrogen filling stations around because Shell found it was making a huge loss on the pumps and just shut all their pumps down.