• FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    We really need the new battery technology that we’ve been promised for the past 2 decades. Electricity doesn’t have weight. It’s how we store it, and there’s got to be a lighter and less toxic way.

    • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I don’t think it will help. People already massively overbuy battery range for their EV “just in case”. Why get 200 miles of range when you can get 400 miles? It’s just like how people buy huge trucks just in case they need to buy lumber twice a year. Bigger car? Heavier car? Who cares!

    • juliebean@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      if we were willing to make and drive slower, lighter cars, and adapt our cities to them, we’d already be there. but so long as electric vehicles need to have equivalent speed, range, and size as big gas vehicles, they’re gonna need a lot of heavy batteries. the lithium batteries we’ve got nowadays are crazy efficient in terms of energy stored per kilogram, but the cars demand so much energy. i’d love to be able to replace my car with an NEV, but alas, i legally would not be allowed to even go to the nearest grocery store with it, let alone my job.

    • Pyro@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      The vapor that is the future of battires. We keep getting better stuff and then some problems happen with production or the science is just wrong after deeper research. IT SUCKS!

      Also electricity does have weight

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Batteries have gotten 6 to 10 times better in the last 30 years. Just like every other field of research, not every idea is (currently) commercially viable, but advances still regularly occur.