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How do those batteries hold up in cold temps? My lithium ion ice fishing battery has to stay warm or it fails.Some electric cars are getting 300 +. If you are a commuter and charge your car every night this is more than enough range.
If you get 250k miles out of a tsla and then have to pay 25k for another battery pack that will last an additional 250k miles (probably more by then) .... thats a pretty good deal.
I think its far from a foolish assumption that materials science (batteries) wont continue to make leaps forward. New technologies have always been emerging, there is no reason to think they will stop, especially when the reward will be tremendous. I would bet a large sum that we are not close to product maturity on batteries.
I agree that Dems may be pushing too aggressively on the timeline, but the switch to EV's will happen and will need to happen. Just as bad as pushing too fast, is resisting any change at all.
Updates to the grid are the first step and no one seems serious about that. I agree ev are the future, but until the grid can handle the strain all this ev talk is silly.