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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5357882" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Was just watching a video about Ford's new lithium iron phosphate batteries.  Superior to lithium ion batteries in every way except they're only half as energy dense.  So takes more of them resulting in a heavier vehicle.  They expect the technology to improve in the next two years.  But the big impact is they don't have any nickel or cobalt which have become extremely expensive and there's limited supply.  Iron and phosphate are two of the most common minerals on Earth.  Tesla is even looking at them.  Can make these batteries for a lot less so the potential is there for an affordable EV.  Stuff like this has to happen and we'll need reliable electricity production like from nuclear if we're truly going to switch from fossil fuels.</p></blockquote><p></p>