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Ok-Development8745 t1_j8kvr6f wrote

Reply to comment by BigCountry76 in Electric Vehicles Could Match Gasoline Cars on Price This Year by seascot

Battery technology hasn’t changed.

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Hotkoin t1_j8lfmfn wrote

Truly, we still use the voltaic pile even to this day. I drag my 300 kg mobile phone around with me and have to regularly swap out the vinegar soaked sheets of fabric to keep the screen on.

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Ok-Development8745 t1_j8lfrsh wrote

You know what I mean. Of course I’m not being literal. We have made no significant advancements in battery technology in a long time.

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Hotkoin t1_j8lgmm2 wrote

Quite a stretch of a statement there.

That's kinda like saying a smartphone using a lithium ion battery from 10 years ago is about as dense as a current smartphone lithium ion battery

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Hotkoin t1_j8lghbc wrote

Quite a stretch of a statement there.

That's kinda like saying a smartphone using a lithium ion battery from 10 years ago is about as dense as a current smartphone lithium ion battery

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Ok-Development8745 t1_j8lgmh1 wrote

The fact that we’re still using lithium ion jfc man just nvm you’re clearly just looking for a combative argument and I’m not trying to fight. Good nite

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Hotkoin t1_j8lgrds wrote

Just because the current wave of batteries and batteries from 10 years ago are called lithium ion doesn't mean they're the same thing.

Kinda like saying rubber tires 100 years ago are the same as rubber tires now

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