Comment by tempnow987

Yes, the lithium shortage was heavily predicted.

Now it's a cobalt shortage. Most of these "shortages" ignore what can happen when prices rise and/or are regulatory shortages rather than actual shortages.

When folks talk about cycle life being limited, the cobalt and other items may be re-usable after in a new battery production. A 6c is an insane charge rate. There may be cases where the cost / benefit works for something like this if they can deliver.

The common hiccup in many battery stories is just the lab theory -> production reality curve. It's one thing to have a solid state battery that charges in seconds on a lab bench doing 1 picowatthour and another to have 1 megawatthour of storage.