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It actually fits the narrative pretty well

The materials for one EV battery can make ~30 e-bikes, and currently EVs are too expensive for most people.

The way to fix that and the way that industry is fixing it is to make batteries more efficient (higher-density, new anodes/cathodes) in parallel with making a bunch more of them (and mining more lithium).

If we succeed in making a $25k EV, the batteries used in those vapes will be _even cheaper_.

I don’t think it’s desirable and I find the waste appalling, but I do think that disposable batteries can only be expected to grow without intervention.