MIT’s Professor Donald Sadoway said battery development has been disappointingly slow, and this will hurt sales of electric cars generally. “Development (of lithium-ion batteries) is not going to be significant enough to change the price performance ratio for it to have an impact on auto sales predictions. “The only way that we can get a meaningful effect from these batteries would be if they were significantly cheaper than current batteries, which are still quite expensive,” he said.
MIT’s Professor Donald Sadoway said battery development has been disappointingly slow, and this will hurt sales of electric cars generally. “Development (of lithium-ion batteries) is not going to be significant enough to change the price performance ratio for it to have an impact on auto sales predictions. These numbers are so low because it will still make more sense to have an internal combustion engine in 2025 using fossil fuel,” Sadoway said in an interview.