Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

This chart and article show how battery prices have declined over time:

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

The upshot is that between 1991 and 2018 battery price per kWh has declined 97%. So there is a continuous pipeline of innovations going on.

Daily there are huge innovations being rolled out that improve the serviceability of the EV batteries as well as create opportunities to make them smaller so they won't need as much raw minerals.

Yesterday was a rollout of new discoveries by Dr. Goodenough, the guy most of us associate with the discovery of the Lithium batter, today there's the innovation of making the EV batteries recharge in 10 minutes...

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story ... khKJplNaSE

https://electrek.co/2020/04/23/work-on- ... s-forward/