The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers
Exhibit 1: Global battery sales by sector, GWh/y. Source: Ziegler and Trancik (2021), Placke et al. (2017) for 1991-2014; BNEF Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook (2023) for 2015-2022 and the latest outlook for 2023 (*) from the BNEF Lithium-Ion Battery Price Survey (2023). 2. Battery costs keep falling while quality rises