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The thing is we still need carbon heavy fuel for fertilizers, medical plastics, chip making etc.
Not to mention oceangoing ships and airplanes. There is no battery on the horizon nearly energy dense enough to make that kind of transport work.
Sounds like they should be doing some materials R&D while switching to renewable energy and conserving oil for materials. Imagine if we actually worked to solve problems instead of make profit.
Battery density and transmission loss, that's the name of the game. Materials science for sure.
I was also pointing out that, as long as people want to fly planes or ship good across oceans, we have nothing close to the energy density of the various fuels used.
But everything else need to be going as green as possible as soon as possible.