alt Hacker News> Most of the cost will be safety systems designed to prevent the battery from being exciting and even then a crash will likely set them off.
People say the same thing about Li-ion batteries yet they have proven to be significantly less likely to catch fire compared to ICE vehicles [1].
> people who don't want to admit that large scale electrification is a dumb idea. We electrified everything that made sense to electrify a half century ago.
I'm very curious to hear why you think this. If nothing else, the 'situation' with the Strait of Hormuz would seem to have shown the importance of energy independence achieved through large scale electrification. Individually, I couldn't go back to an ICE car or even garden tools, they're worse in every way.
1. https://www.mynrma.com.au/open-road/advice-and-how-to/unders...
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For a sobering look at the reality of electric vehicle fires, including his involvement in some original research, you can’t go passed StacheD:
Na is 30x the volatility of Li. Physics doesn't care about your politics. Just like you (at the moment) are acting like you don't care if people die in fires.
If you want to replace FF there is exactly one solution, that's nuclear. Nothing else even scales to the point of making any difference at all. And you need to not just make electricity from the NPPs, but ammonia and some sort of synthetic hydrocarbon too. Anything else is a pipe dream from people who have never looked at the numbers nor learned the physics.
Stop acting like you care about this issue. You have never cared enough to learn about it, so until you do, stop spreading misinformation about how physics works.
PS I have driven an electric car for a decade, they are wonderful. Too bad there isn't enough Li for everyone to have one. Replacing Na with the Li just doesn't work for transport if you at all care about the people riding in the cars.
>People say the same thing about Li-ion batteries yet they have proven to be significantly less likely to catch fire compared to ICE vehicles [1].
Isn't the nasty thing about lithium fires not how likely they are, but how difficult they are to put out, as well as how hot they burn?