honestly the only major safety issues with EVs is tesla specific and their ultra retarded door handle system. Yes lets take a simple mechanical system that has worked great for 200 years and make it an electric button, then hide the real mechanical release in a spot that you can't find when panicked and choking to death on smoke. Great job, so futuristic.

Bigger issue overall is fire departments dragging their feet on not having the correct gear/training to handle self sustaining lithium fires. Gasoline is easy to suppress and dilute, lithium not so much, since it's difficult to get water directly to the cells to cool them below autoignition point.

No but I heard about an electric car burning once, and none of my ice cars have ever combusted, so CLEARLY, electrics are deathtraps

/s

Fuck ICE. In every sense of the expression.

Safer than an explosion-powered car carrying a big tank of gasoline? A bold claim! /s

Teslas crash more than any other brand. 3/3 last years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2025/02/11/tesla-again-has-the-highest-accident-rate-of-any-auto-brand/

Wait, how? Aren't they essentially the same except heavier?

I'm not sure I agree, but much of that is coming from their heinous "not ready for real world use" like "autopilot" and "FSD".

I just don't want to be anywhere near one when a battery's breached. That's when it goes from relatively safe to RUN FOR YOUR LIVES.

The packs CATL makes now are 175Whr/kg which is very close to LFP. They're already EV-worthy.

Yup, and that's exactly what we need for transitioning the entire grid to renewables. Mobile applications should be a marginal/convenience thing compared to actual infrastructure.

Not the worst, they are still much better than traditional lead-batteries, but worse than lithium. Cheap, low-range EVs are an option however.

Other than that, you're right. They are much more useful for grid storage, where energy density is way less important than cost.

EVs are not the primary application for sodium ion batteries, I dont know why this post is trying to focus on that. The really exciting application is cheap grid-scale energy storage, making renewables even cheaper than they already are.

Correction: Telsa's regulatory capture has lead to a stagnant market.

Solution: Allow Chinese EVs into the market.

Internal combustion engine

Not this time. They are already being used. They are not super batterie though and won't to replace Lithium batteries any time soon, but they have their niches.

The main advantage over Lithium batteries is that sodium is an abundant ressource.

Of course it does. But it always happens about ten years after the breakthrough, and we barely notice, because batteries just get a bit smaller, so the capacity stays the same.