I am not so certain that in the issue Ed highlights will be quite so critical in the future, he is also a bit late to the table. Good whole systems design is critical as Richard highlights. The issue is more to do with the Li-Ion runaway state which a bad event can trigger. Once a Li-Ion catches fire and becomes a runaway event then it is a critical moment innocent. A petrol tank could also explode on an ICE car although that is a lesser risk and result? A long time ago I was shown how the Norwegians dealt with it (on land) with a container full of water and a lifting arm. Admittedly not as practical for a boat but an illustration that it has been addressed?

Solid State Batteries along with all of the development people like CATL and BYD are doing will change the issue for the longer term. CATL's announcement last month resolves it with a significant power boost and cost reduction. The company Mercedes bought a while back doing SSB work also addresses it.
This chap is a good source of current battery and car industry stuff, he displays a bias but is generally very informative.

On a side note.

I am not certain that F-Elon Musk did invent the Tesla. He did have a very direct hand in the Cybertruck. How did that go. Last I heard there was a kickstarter running to cut them up and make knife sets out of them. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/061915/story-behind-teslas-success.asp

He was an early investor in Tesla and drove the two founders and primary inventors out of the business, apparently.
His money came from Paypal which he was involved in from early days. Again, not the ideas man.

I do not intend to infer he is not smart but there is this "god like" thing going around about him and I sometimes think that it maybe be the reflection of others in his image? Or I am just jealous of not having a couple of hundred billion USD. His (many) children will be very interesting to watch in the future. The MARS thing is way out there. Bit more than mushrooms involved here I suspect. Still that would make them a good protein for the long haul to MARS, probably not powered by batteries.

Contrast that with Jeff (Amazon) Bezos divorced wife who walked away with $39 Billion. So far she has performed random acts of kindness to the value of 50% of it already and shows no signs of stopping. https://www.philanthropy.com/package/the-ripple-effects-of-mackenzie-scotts-philanthropy
I think I am more impressed that there was not a lawyer involved in the carve up and it happened without becoming a mess.

Thank god there is still some good in this changing world.

(some of this content was generated using AI, Artirifical Ignorunce, me) ChatGPT was not harmed in the making of this post.