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Originally Posted by Stewie
Has Musk recovered from his mental health issues he's had for the past year? Last I heard he was still having issues. Mainly from big money investors (shorting the stock) that don't believe the company is viable without huge government incentives.
BTW, the manufacture of the Li-xxx batteries and amount of resources they use is ridiculous.
If they could come up with a 100% lithium battery that didn't cause fires and explode it would offset all of the current problems. That seems to be like cracking cold fusion.
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The good news is that the huge growth in e-cars is fueling a lot of research into battery technologies. I'd imagine we'll see some significant advances in the next 5-10 years.
Here's on idea that is far from production-ready, but illustrates that people are making progress on the issues.