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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
This makes no sense. Even today, EVs are largely in demand because of environmental considerations. They're objectively a pain in the ass in many regards compared to ICE vehicles, and the delta in energy costs to run them largely exists because of environmentally driven price increases in the fossil fuel supply chain and fuel tax structures.
There is an insane amount of money and time invested in battery R&D now vs. 10 years ago, and the improvements in batteries have been staggering. That wouldn't have happened if the R&D investments had stayed flat because everyone wasn't worried about continuing along with fossil fuel vehicles.
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You've got this backwards. We aren't seeming more battery progress because there is more demand. There's more demand because there is more progress.
Once again, the lithium ion battery has been in the works since the 1970s, with virtually all of the big electronics, consumer products, and automobile companies in on the action. Do you really think that having members of the public telling them to work faster would have sped things up? Once again if a company like Sony had developed and patented a modern cell phone battery in 1985, they should have cornered the entire electronics market. That's not enough incentive? Instead having Joe Public say make it faster is what was missing?