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Re:VW plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23K:... by ams6110 on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:39AM (#18414643)
> I don't think the capacity is even remotely there for other manufacturers to come in and just buy up energy storage on the open market

If this is the case, doesn't it destroy the arguments of renewable energy advocates that "utility scale" batteries to store solar/wind energy are anywhere close to being realistic?

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Re:VW plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23K:... by icelancer on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:24PM (#18418876)
In the short-term, I'd say so. But I think it's realistic on the timescale that people care about large-scale renewable energy, which is the end of my generation (30ish year old) and the middle of the next, so like 2040-2050.
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