This is always good for a chuckle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But your home's set up isn't mainstream at all: the vast majority of houses that can have home charging do not need to spend more than 1k to get it. They don't have to contend with 250 foot cable runs. Although as I pointed out, in all likelihood, you don't have to contend with that either. Your problem is niche, not mainstream!

That's in character, sure; but what's the paper-thin excuse for that being a cogent policy idea?

The same excuses to impose tariffs because "DRUGS!" while pardoning drug kingpins. Or sinking boats because "DRUG BOATS" while again, pardoning drug kingpins and smugglers.

The excuse is that its pay to play. Those drug king[ins paid Trump for pardons. China pays Trump for chips. As long as you're paying Trump, you're good.

250 is completely fine in an EV. I drive from London to Durham, which is 260 -- ie longer than your there-and-back journey -- it take five hours if all goes well. The car doesn't need to charge, but I do need a break on a journey of that length. I would not blink about jumping in my car and driving 125 miles, going for a hike, and driving home again, without ever thinking about the need to plug in either en route or at my destination. Just plug in the night before and plug in when I get home. Totally straightforward.

Obviously, some EVs have a range of way less than 250 and some have a range of way more. But there's plenty of perfectly ordinary cars that will take you 250 miles without blinking: Citroen C5 Aircross LR, Renault Scenic LR, Kia EV4, Tesla M3 LR, Xpeng G6 LR, MG IM5 LR, etc etc.

I don't really see why you need me to do this, when Google is readily available to you. It would be nice to think that as I'm going to this effort, you're going to concede that it is in fact the case that China has been innovating in basic battery chemistries, but we shall see.

Anyway, I am amazed you really need me to spell this out for LFP: it's quite a well-known chemistry, surely you've read about it? You know, cheaper, more durable, many more charge cycles, greater fire resistance, no M or Co thus no risk of conflict minerals, lower power density than NMC but not too bad, etc etc. Used in the R1T, the Mach E, the M3 & Y, loads of BYDs, etc

For sodium: there's been models in mass production since late 2023, including the Yiewei 3 and the JMEV EV3. Sodium's obvious massive advantage is that it's much cheaper due to sodium's enormous abundance cf Li. But there's also a lower fire risk, lower impact of extraction cf Li, no conflict minerals, many more charge cycles even than LFP, etc. But lower power density than Li chemistries
Example: https://www.electrive.com/2024...

For semi-solid state: the first mass produced car is the MG4 Anxin Edition. It's an LiM chemistry similar to the LMR chemistry you touted, but it's coming in mid 2026 in global markets, a full two years before the chemistry you described, and the production car is already finalised. You can read about it here: https://carnewschina.com/2025/...
Semi-solid is more power-dense than liquid chemistry and more stable.

I don't think anyone's ever tried to hide the fact that putting in a home charger has always had two costs associated with it: the kit and the installation. The all-in costs have always been 500 to 1k in the UK, which is not nothing, but also only a small fraction of the costs of buying a car (unless it's a really, really shit car). What we were discussing was whether your costs in your circs would be the typical 500 to 1k or would be that plus another 2500 for a long shielded cable run, and I think the answer is, there would be extra costs, but almost certainly far less than the 2500 you were talking about, because there's easier solutions than running that long cable.

But as I said before, it's going to be a very long time before you buy an EV anyway, if you ever do, long enough that battery prices will have fallen another 50 or 75%, so the car itself will be a lot cheaper than today.

At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.

Some of them not only have no consequences, they'll be rewarded. Llike the investors that convinced millions of 401K holders to sink their retirement into this garbage. It will be like 2008 Goldman Sachs, but with more of the guardrails torn down since then.

8000 tons is irrelevant in a station building scenario.

Individual data centers already have dozens of shipping container sized diesel generators, so space isn't exactly at a premium.

The only reason batteries might not be able to fill the gap is simply ingredient supply - and new chemistries are being developed every year.

Plutonium that's mixed/dissolved in molten salt. If the baddies have enough access to be processing the fuel themselves, me thinks you have bigger problems.

To me the real benefits of these is that they can literally eat our existing uranium pellet waste.

I read something once that this jogged in my brain...

There are 4 types of people:

1. Gets work done, espouses company ethics - easy keep
2. Doesn't get work done, doesn't follow ethics - easy fire
3. Doesn't get work done but shows ethics and effort - keep and help
4. Gets work done but doesn't espouse company ethics.

#4 needs to be shown the door LOUDLY so people understand.

I worked for a gov't contractor that would have benefited from that.

Our leadership had a penchant for sending *VPs* to take *notes* to increase the bill rate to the gov. Often enough the gov clients actually complained lol

Perhaps they could establish a payment network for them or otherwise make them actually useful. File and pay your taxes for you.

Anything these particular bands of loonies are opposed to, I automatically consider a good idea.