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It is hard to compete with a new technology against an older that was optimized for decades (see electric cars). But in the present case, resources in lithium a
by scriptproof 9y ago
It is hard to compete with a new technology against an older that was optimized for decades (see electric cars). But in the present case, resources in lithium are not unlimited so we expect its cost to rise in the future.
- davidgerard 9y agoNote that it took a decade or so before lithium batteries were reliable and trustworthy. I remember every second report in the '80s being "fascinating technology! huge capacity! whoops it caught fire again, but" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_battery#Lithium_and_lithium-ion_batteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_battery#Lithium...