>>1885768We have made many, many types of alternative batteries, but the problem is nearly all of them are niche or difficult to maintain. We have sodium batteries, for instance, but they have to be maintained at temperatures around 130-140 degrees to remain functional. We also have molten batteries which may find use as mass energy storage for batteries, but again, they require environmental conditions to be maintained which can't be done in a car.
I don't claim to know everything, but we can't base the future off "what if" at this point. What if we could just design a battery which can work under normal conditions, has high energy density (high enough for what consumers expect) and doesn't have a baked in fire risk? Miracles can happen, but we've searched for quite a while and have come up with many battery designs, but we haven't found it. Now is not the time to be going all in on battery-electric mobility, and sure you can have cautious optimism, but don't take it beyond that.
