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lunar2solar t1_is0v75r wrote

I've been reading headlines about new battery tech forever, when will we actually get it though?

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sexyloser1128 t1_is1to9t wrote

I would be for banning battery articles in this sub as all of them have never panned out or were never heard again.

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Luniusem t1_is2876o wrote

There are tons of chemistries/architectures in various states of commercialization, but this seem to be half-cell work which is about as far from commercialization as you can be.

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noelcowardspeaksout t1_is52ebg wrote

Small improvements continually trickle through. They also have grid scale power storage Sodium Ion batteries to replace lithium now which is quite significant. Large scale testing is going on for other power storage tech too.

The big breakthrough everyone is waiting for, the solid state battery, has been slated to appear by a many car companies in 2025.

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