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Originally Posted by red-sauerkraut
You can't contain it safely within a vehicle. It's not predictable, so why bother.
We are 18 months away from 200 mile battery packs so moreover who cares.
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Because battery packs are terrible. They are terrible for the environment and have awful energy density. You can only practically use less than 75% of the available charge(I forget, I think it's like 60%) or they will prematurely fail. They must be cooled, introducing additional limitations and hardware. And they take forever to charge, even at higher voltage / amperge. They are merely a bridge to better sources of mobile electrical power. Hydrogen fuel cells are not perfect, but they are a better direction to go. The future is not batteries.