Teslas newest batter is 5 times more dense, 5 times lighter. Do you know what that means? If their current car can stop the newest hottest Vette in the Quarter mile and if you drive it normally, you can get 250 to 300 miles out of it in normal driving, Tesla is looking at over 750 miles. Probably over 1000 per charge. And it will cost about the same because the battery is cheaper to make than the Lipo4 is. Tesla is tooling up right now. Look for it early next year.
In the first 5 years, it will cost more because it costs more but year 5 to 10, it smokes the Gas hog.
In 2025, Tesla is introducing their solid state Battery that can be built right into the car itself and has a lifespan of more than 100,000 hours of service before replacement. It's not only useful for cars and light trucks, it's useful for heavy trucks as well. Can you imagine a Semi running fully loaded running cross country that has to stop every 1500 miles and do a 5 minute recharge? Now, make it autonomous but that may be at least a decade away.
Another company has a Carbon Battery that you build the outter skin out of it. Think of taking a lead pencil, making the carbon in it 1 mcrometer in depth and then stacking that on top of more layers. They already have small working models. But that's probably 10 years away.
In 1901, the Maxwell Electric Car did 23mph and 40 miles per charge. The Hand Built Gas Cars couldn't do any better and there was no real place to go in the United States that required more than 40 miles. 40 miles was the distance a good horse could make without wearing the horse and the rider out. But in 1903, a new motor/engine was introduced call the Gasoline Combustion Engine and all work went into it and the Electric Car was abandoned for the next 90 years. And there really wasn't any new leaps in battery technology for the next 100 years. That means that the Electric Car really didn't start being rediscovered until the 90s. It's come a very long way in a very short time. It took a lot longer than that to get a real workable affordable engine
Things are happening fast in energy right now. And I have only touched on the transportation. The Energy generation at Lockheed will shock the living hell out of you.
So get ready. BTW, I still won't get rid of my Hemi Powered Wagon. But I do drive my electric trike most of the time. It's fun in a different way and costs almost nothing to operate in comparison.