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Originally Posted by Silveradoss573
This whole electric fade will be short lived. Just wait and watch...  |
I think there's some chance for synthetic fuels could turn the tide, or at least be available for enthusiasts. The current li ion batteries haven't increased much in energy density. I looked up the energy density of a 2008 tesla roadster, and it wasn't much different the the current model 3. Yes the battery price has gone down, but a light EV performance car with good range doesn't seem to exist. I think it will be some time before we get a new battery chemistry that's cheap, and significantly more energy dense.
All the while, strides could be taking with synthetic fuels in scaling and efficiency. These fuels won't compete well when generated with local distributed electricity, but plants located in remote places with an excess of undistributed green energy will be hard to argue with like Porsche's plant in Chile that uses cheap excess wind generated electricity.