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Originally Posted by Needsdecaf
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.
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Please, you are probably one of the people that claimed the Prius battery packs wouldn't last 10K too. Battery density has reached USEFUL levels. It still has a way to go to get to 500 miles, but you think that's impossible? I guess we'll never break the sound barrier either! Battery technology continues to improve, in terms of density and recycleability, I'm not too worried.
Until we can design a micro-fusion generator, batteries are the future.