Electric-car battery prices dropped 13% in 2019, will reach $100/kwh in 2023

Flat lithium-ion battery back for next-generation Mercedes-Benz electric carsAlthough electric cars haven’t quite taken off in the 2010s the way some had anticipated, sheer economics are pointing to the 2020s as the time when EVs will find that market fever pitch. From 2010 to 2019, lithium-ion battery prices (when looking at the battery pack as a whole) have fallen from $1,100 per kilowatt-hour to $156/kwh—an...