I don’t think it’s the battery specs holding back most buyers. For one thing transitions take time even when new tech could cover most of the market’s needs. But the main thing currently is purchase cost and charging infrastructure availability, both of which are improving at a fairly steady rate.

Most of the work going into scaling up EV production currently is about producing higher volumes of the batteries we have to bring costs down. A second prong is working on higher energy density and faster charging, but these solid-state batteries are going to be expensive and start in high-end vehicles, not economy cars for the masses.

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nomel 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I don’t think it’s the battery specs holding back most buyers.

First link shows it's, at least, the primary (majority) concern for purchase. Price is part of the battery tech/chemistry package (~40% BEV price is battery), which seems to be the real killer:

> Only 33 percent of global survey respondents say they are likely or very likely to buy an EV at current price levels

	▲	stetrain a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. But scaling up current battery tech is what the industry is doing, and that will bring down prices. Improved charging infrastructure also offsets range concerns.