Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality
2026-04-01 11:50 UTC
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@vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2026-04-01 12:06
The price of the batteries was never really the issue, it was their weight versus their capacity with some consideration towards size and robustness. As far as I can tell, today the biggest hurdle is charging.
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@Gork@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-01 12:19
But the savings haven’t flowed down to us. Gotta make line go up, it seems.
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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-04-01 11:53
And yet, EV prices stubbornly high in North America.
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@TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2026-04-01 17:21
> making electrified transport a reality Electrified rail remains the most efficient form of transportation and has been available since the late 1800s...... People are just so obsessed with cars that they ignored the safest, most efficient, and environmentally friendly option for over a hundred years. I guess the future is bound to be filled with dangerous traffic with even heavier cars, and filled with millions of batteries filled with lithium mined by impoverished children.
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:56
It's amazing how much batteries have decreased in price, we now not only have mid range cars that can be electric, the lower range sub compacts have been entering the EV market too. Among all the shit happening today, this is actually a bright spot, making an EV more affordable to normal households. Maybe except USA that is clearly behind now, despite Tesla was a major influence in the early days of EV.
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@BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 18:02
Lol. Although this claim might be technically true, comparing the cost of the first prototype lithium ion battery with a modern mass produced batteries is apples to oranges.
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@devolution@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:29
Blame Shell.
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@Limonene@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 02:49
>In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. Where can I get lithium-ion batteries for $78 per kilowatt-hour?
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@viov@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 00:23
We all dream of electric open source vehicles and public transit!
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@NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-01 17:03
Should've put a fourth line to make sure we understand the drop
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@snrkl@lemmus.org 2026-04-01 21:39
https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide A long but very worthwhile read for anyone wanting to understand the electrification industry.
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@Jalfred_prurock@lemmy.today 2026-04-03 00:34
Buy SLDP. Solid state battery company It's the next big thing.
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@mrnobody@reddthat.com 2026-04-01 11:53
The grid... Cannot sustain in the US.
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@Buffalox@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 18:47
Modern batteries are way way better than they used to be, even alkaline is better and were quite expensive in the 90's. But it's not only how much better they are, it's the prices, alkaline is standard today, and you barely even look at the price, because they are dirt cheap. But you are right that in electronics there have been much improvements, a modern flashlight is easily a 100 times better because of both LED and better batteries. LED improved it probably by a factor of about 10. But for many things like a laptop, the power consumption hasn't gone down that much, because the better batteries have actually made it possible to make more powerful laptops instead. the power consumption of a modest laptop CPU alone id 65 Watt, which would be HUGE in the 80's. I agree the 99% sounds like much, but I can attest to at least 80% probably more like 90% better batteries than the early 90's. Lithium batteries really was a game-changer, especially if you consider only rechargeable batteries.