I guess if my argument is the same one Elon Musk makes, it's bizarre? That's bizarre!
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Engineers have redesigned the software, cooling, electronics and cell layout to fit more power into the same battery pack, akin to “stuffing 11 pounds into a ten-pound bag,” said Musk. “It gets exponentially harder to increase the energy density.”
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https://qz.com/764723/tesla-has-maxe...teries-can-do/
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However, the road to a promised land of zero-emission vehicles is littered with speed bumps and red lights that threaten to seriously slow the progress of the electric car. Battery makers are struggling to secure supplies of key ingredients in these large power packs – mainly cobalt and lithium. The hopes of both battery and vehicle manufacturers hang on the mining sector finding more deposits of these precious minerals.
Trent Mell of First Cobalt, a Toronto-based mining company, said: “Cobalt is tricky because of the scarcity of supply. There aren’t a lot of producers. We’re relying on more discoveries. It’s out there: we’ve just got to find it.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-cobalt-mining
I'm not saying it isn't going to happen, or that these challenges are insurmountable. I'm saying we don't have a solution, and we need a big step, not incremental improvements if electric vehicles are going to make that large scale movement to replacing the ICE. Eating away at the margins while the pie continues to grow doesn't really change the overall number of ICE vehicles on the road.