Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles::Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times—more than any other pouch …
Sure of course, and this was a good article, but I think it’s absolutely right to ream pop tech rags that pick these data up and make it sound like the battery revolution is right around the corner. It is important to couch this stuff in the fact that battery tech is operating on what appear to be fairly narrow margins and that reliable gains in efficiency are not likely within arms reach. There is an ocean of battery research and very little of it results in marketable changes without dozens of other breakthroughs needed to be made to make the new finds feasible. Curbed enthusiasm is appropriate in this field not journalistic tech hyperbole.