don't know about batteries, but fuel cells are the future for transportation

>>16715933 (OP)
gasoline is basically just a chemical battery desu

Maybe, but gasoline can use the atmosphere as its electron acceptor so most of the mass you get for "free" from the air, and it gets blasted out the exhaust pipe so you lose mass as you burn the fuel which is also an advantage. Of course, the low efficiency of heat engines leaves a lot of room for battery electric to make up for its lack of those advantages.

>>16715933 (OP)
density doesn't matter as much when there are far more opportunities to charge and microcharge vehicles as they travel

>>16715933 (OP)
The problem is not the density, it is the cost to achieve that density.

>>16716051
nearly everything has energy that can be exploited

>>16715933 (OP)
Probably not. A battery needs to be chargeable, which constrains its structure.

>>16715933 (OP)
China already has that and more.

>>16716482
No battery has the energy density of hydrocarbons you lying sack of shit

>>16716568
Radioactive batteries do, but you can't burn them for more energy or they explode, but so does gasoline, we will get there with controlled atomic power

>>16715933 (OP)
I doubt it.