TL;DR - have you gone to the source to see if LFP manufacturing costs actually justify the price, nevermind performance or cost-per-cycle salesmanship?
Being an early adopter of LFP, I paid what I thought was "early adopter" prices. Prices didn't really fall much over intervening years as much a I thought they would. I thought that LFP would nearly wipe lead-acid off the map. Heh, not so.
The question that nobody seems to be asking is "How much does it actually cost manufacturers to make an LFP cell, in comparison to say lead acid?"
Note that I'm not talking about component installers, but questioning actual mining and fabricating costs that are sold to us. Do those costs actually justify the prices we are paying now? Or are we playing the cost-per-cycle and performance shell-game when it may be true that making an LFP battery could be pennies on the dollar?
I guess I'm just saddened by what I thought would be revolutionary in cost and performance (way beyond what it is now), given how cheap it is to manufacture, seemingly held artificially high based upon lead analogies of it's cost-per-cycle. The usual schtick..
Being an early adopter of LFP, I paid what I thought was "early adopter" prices. Prices didn't really fall much over intervening years as much a I thought they would. I thought that LFP would nearly wipe lead-acid off the map. Heh, not so.
The question that nobody seems to be asking is "How much does it actually cost manufacturers to make an LFP cell, in comparison to say lead acid?"
Note that I'm not talking about component installers, but questioning actual mining and fabricating costs that are sold to us. Do those costs actually justify the prices we are paying now? Or are we playing the cost-per-cycle and performance shell-game when it may be true that making an LFP battery could be pennies on the dollar?
I guess I'm just saddened by what I thought would be revolutionary in cost and performance (way beyond what it is now), given how cheap it is to manufacture, seemingly held artificially high based upon lead analogies of it's cost-per-cycle. The usual schtick..