I don't think you are right Ody. Automotive manufacturers have tended to be pretty conservative. It is Tesla which have made all sorts of over-confident forecasts which they have failed to deliver and set dates which they haven't met.
Surely you aren't suggesting Dyson are an automotive company? They haven't sold a single car
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GM may not be the most successful car manufacturer in the world, but they do have a long history of achieving automotive goals.
Who knows the future? But it wouldn't be too rash to suggest that car batteries will be a lot different in the next few years? And probably lighter and with longer range?
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Howard
Well I had another guffaw about Automotive manufactures tending to be pretty conservative.
Most automotive manufactures can't hit critical dates which is why they rarely mention them and their claims are almost always massively inflated over what a production car can achieve in performance, range and depreciation.
Dyson was just a recent example of the sort of stuff that car makers tend to put out, not that Dyson has ever made a car but he was just a timely example of the sort of guff that comes out in the automotive space.
The problem with saying that car batteries will be a lot different in the next few years is that there may indeed be some advances in the laboratory, but going from something that works great on the test bench to something that works as a practical motor is a non-trivial industrial task that requires a lot of experiments. Then a lot of re-purposing of buildings or making of new buildings, hiring of staff, establishing supplies, ironing out all the production engineering problems etc.
It is possible that someone invents something that is so good, cheap and easy that it becomes the dominant storage technology almost over night, but it is a very low probability event.
Meanwhile Tesla have a big lead in a technology that works, are rapidly advancing that tech and are shortly going to have a battery day on it, while at the same moment have relationships with various battery makers and their own in-house production too and they are selling batteries both via their electric cars and also for storage.
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