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Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by numpad0 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:48PM (#41939590)
EVs are full of gimmicks because battery cost never hit $100/kWh and they have to justify the premium over ICE, that's it.
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Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by floxy on Thursday October 24, 2024 @06:54PM (#41940653)
I though we hit sub $100/kWh in 2024?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-lithium-ion-batteri...

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Re:BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Afford... by AtlasBarfed on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:33PM (#41941525)
That's a stupid number with inflation in the last 3 years.

Anyway, sodium ion will scale to less than that regardless of inflation.

A sodium ion battery should cost 40% of nmc.

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