the industry faces a similar challenge with electric vehicles where the engineering solution for range anxiety has mostly been to increase the size of the battery in the vehicle. But the battery is the most crucial component to tackle affordability because it accounts for somewhere around 40% of the vehicle’s total cost and upwards of 25% of its total weight.
Just like when automakers simply made bigger engines, adding more battery makes the vehicle heavier, more expensive and creates a massive physics challenge.
