New batteries coming 2021

[Boogieman]

Finally Sweden joins in on batteries for our beloved vehicles. This will be huge I think. Lets hope it helps making leeway foe electrical vehicles except cars and bikes in the future :-)

 

https://northvolt.com/northvolt-completes-equity-capital-raise-to-enable-europes-first-homegrown-gigafactories-for-lithium-ion-batteries/

 

Being a Swede I know the level of quality and huge enviromental thinking among industries (more than the government that basically just talks rubbish a.k.a. they say they are envirmentally friendly by making Sweden enviromentally friendly, but then we dont have enough power from our plants and buy electricity from coal in germany Russia and whatnot...hypocrits or uneducated or both, current government should be put aside. Same reasoning on imgration, help the few that have money enogh to come to Sweden and live on wellfare paid buy the Swedish workers, but dont mind the starving with not enough cash to eat in the middle of the worried countries or war zones).

[LanghamP]

Didn't Goodman Sachs receive tremendous bailout cash in 2008-2009?

Didn't VW set up their diesel cars to run extremely lean when hooked up to an emissions tester? The evidence is conclusive that diesel kills between 27,000 to 90,000 people in Europe per year (killing as many people in one year as Chernobyl killed over three decades).

In my opinion, cheap batteries with poisonous metals are dangerous, because people will be tempted to buy and discard them. Instead, batteries should be managed like Plutonium, with pedigrees from miner to buyer. Should you be caught indifferently discarding said battery, your cell phone and your car shall be taken away from you for a year.

What I find astonishing is that for a mere $50,000 (upper end estimate), you can have solar panels and a very big wall battery storage that meets all your needs in the summer. Perhaps Sweden needs to look at nuclear plants, because nuclear plants pollute less than a bunch of IC engines, even considering our past history of blowing up nuclear plants.