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Unless they can make much safer and more effective batteries, the future for EVs and solar power seems bleak.

Have you ever thought about why you can’t check a lithium-ion battery on an airplane? It is because such batteries have a nasty habit of bursting into flames. . . . 

Spontaneous battery combustion is just one of many reasons why the ballyhooed “energy transition” will never take place.

See also "Utility-scale batteries are very vulnerable to fire".