Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades

Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by noahtallen on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:20PM (#26684392)

I can’t disagree with that. I feel like the EV conversation is centered on “richer” countries anyways because of infrastructure and tech. I’d be curious to learn how EVs are being approached in countries which are still developing infrastructure

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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by baybal2 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @06:01PM (#26685136)

> I feel like the EV conversation is centered on “richer” countries anyways because of infrastructure and tech.

I'd say EV are making inroads there exactly because of no infrastructure, and tech.

In Vietnam, people choose electric scooters over petrol largely because their maintainance free nature, and no need for fluids, or waiting at petrol pumps.

People like that they don't risk expensive, and lengthy breadown of their scooter when their job depend on it.

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Re:Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades by lanstin on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:47PM (#26685039)

They have electric tuk-tuks already. I think batteries / electric motor are inherently simpler to operate, if not fabricate, than ICE so likely to be cheaper at the mass scale. Even solar + batteries + electric motor. And they scale up and down - you can tiny electric things and giant electric things.

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