Battery chemistry is well known and not going to change any time soon. Batteries take time to recharge, and regardless of charging time you have to dump in a certain number of kilowatts to get that energy back out. The watt density of gasoline is far higher than lithium ion batteries.
Gasoline = 12.7 KWH per kg
Lithium ion battery = 100 - 265 WH per kg
Or, the battery has about 2% of the energy per unit of mass compared to gasoline. Now, most of the energy produced in a gasoline engine is waste heat making the engine only about 20% efficient overall or somewhere between 8 and 12 times more efficient than a battery car.
They didn't work when Edison tried them over a century ago, and they don't work now. Battery cars are the equivalent of an Atari computer...
The solution to replacing internal combustion is a fuel cell running on either liquid hydrogen or anhydrous ammonia.
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