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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by Retric on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:37PM (#21718558)
Batteries are getting literally hundreds of millions of dollars a year in R&D investments and have been for decades. We could increase that by a few Billion per year, but it’s not obvious what would make a good investment over just buying more batteries and letting the market develop.
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by Causality1 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:20PM (#21719240)
I would be interested in a study on how many years it takes the average "battery breakthrough" that never goes anywhere because the lab technique is completely unscalable to be revisited with more advanced technology and declared impractical a second or third time.
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by dzhiurgis on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:42PM (#21718578)
Why don't govs give tax breaks for everything that's battery related? Extraction, shipping, manufacture, sales...? I feel the price would halve instantly.
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up by revscat on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:11PM (#21719210)
A carbon tax would help a great deal here as well.