Baltimore is turning ‘911’ into more than just an emergency number, expanding services provided
For years, mobile crisis teams in Baltimore have helped divert applicable emergency calls from police to mental health professionals, but they had limited scope, focusing mostly on people in mental health crises.
Now the city is using some of the $400 million it received from opioid-related legal settlements to expand its emergency response offerings, operating around the clock to respond to calls that “don’t require a badge, a gun, and handcuffs to resolve.”
Baltimore saw 1.68 million 911 calls in 2024, but tens of thousands of them didn’t require police, firefighters, or an ambulance. The expanded 911 services will help people get connected to the appropriate community service.
Why is this good news? When police respond to situations that don’t require them, it can lead to higher rates of arrest and people not being connected to the actual support they need. This expansion of Baltimore’s mobile crisis teams will prioritize connecting people in need with the appropriate resources, rather than putting them in jail.
Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades
Of the 20 million electric vehicles sold globally in 2025, most of them sold for around $40,000, but some as cheap as $10,000 — sales prices only feasible because of how inexpensive batteries have become.
Today, lithium-ion batteries cost just $78 per kilowatt-hour — in 1991, they were around $9,200 per kWh. Batteries in a standard EV today cost around $5,000 — they would have cost nearly $600,000 in 1991, and $20,000 just a decade ago.
Rather than one big breakthrough, thousands of small ones have driven continuously lowering prices: incremental improvements in chemistry, manufacturing, and supply chains.
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