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How much uncompensated wear and tear on privately owned batteries must be endured before the inevitable solution you foresee is available? Our stampede to solar power is getting more and more ahead of our battery technology every day.
He doesn't know the first thing about what you're mentioning. He's seen the F-150 Lightning commercial and thinks, "Wow, my truck can power my house!". Too bad that while it does that...your ability to drive someplace kinda goes out the window. And yes, battery packs only have so many charge/discharge cycles in them before they need to be replaced.
I'm not sure it's possible to miss the mark as much as he manages to, but there he goes...
Anyways. Solid state batteries aren't a joke:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-solid-state-b...Lithium ion batteries, used in EVs today, have a liquid electrolyte solution sandwiched in between their cathodes and anodes (see the middle gap in the image above). Alternatively, solid state batteries use solid electrolytes.
The increased density means solid state batteries can hold anywhere between two to 10 times the capacity of a lithium ion battery, AutoWeek reports.They're safer, too
The liquid electrolytes in lithium ion batteries are flammable, but since solid state batteries do not have that liquid, they do not run the same risk of fire.They're not perfect, though. You still need lithium, cobalt and nickel to make them and none of that stuff is exactly environmentally friendly to mine or extract. Plus a lot of it comes from some not-so-nice places. Your average box wine-swilling, EV-driving sanctimonious virtue signaler likely has zero idea that a lot of Cobalt comes from child labor in the Congo:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cobalt-children-minin...A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mineral cobalt is used in virtually all batteries in common devices, including cellphones, laptops and even electric vehicles.
A report by Amnesty International first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in products from several companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Samsung.Lots of work goes on to try to stop the flow of conflict minerals, but there's a lot of lip service being paid to that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/despite-refor...But unsafe, artisanal mining persists, as does child labor. In locations visited by Washington Post journalists, workers in flip-flops and torn T-shirts, including some who appeared to be teenagers, crowded into huge open pits or descended into the tunnels that honeycomb the ground. Their ore is usually bought by middlemen and smaller industrial mines, refined locally and then shipped to China, where it disappears in the opaque global supply chain.EV's aren't a panacea. The US' power grid - and especially California's - is woefully undersized and not nearly efficient enough to move all the cars from gas powered to electric power despite what Washington, D.C. and the car industry says.
