Will EV's get even more efficient?

[CrgT16]

I think BEVs will increase market share but it will be capped by battery production and it is a stop gap for a better solution. What solution that remains to be seen we may not even be able to come up with any other solution for electricity storage or production.

If we don't it can actually be the nail in the coffin for the human race as we know it.

It's all very well and needed to push electric vehicles for many reasons but the concern is now not running out of oil but shrinking the market to a point where its extraction and refinement is no longer economically viable. I am sure oil has many uses but you stop fuel and plastic it reduces a lot it's use.

I am hoping some game changer technological advance happens but it does not seem likely. Fusion is the eternal saviour but are we actually ever going to see it? or in a timely manner?

Why hasn't solid state battery tech taking off? What are the technical difficulties? Just curious for the ones in the know...

[otolith]

I think there will be better solutions for energy storage in EVs, but I think they will be EVs with better batteries rather than anything more revolutionary.

[GT9]

CrgT16 said:

I think BEVs will increase market share but it will be capped by battery production and it is a stop gap for a better solution.

A radical solution is for the UK to ‘acquire’ 1 TWh worth of battery materials before others can. And then forever prevent the net export of those materials. We can then produce, recycle and reproduce enough EV batteries essentially forever to meet our own needs.