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New developments in battery technology are coming at an ever-accelerating rate as the amount of research on them is increasing and any business or research planning should take this into account. This is just one in a long string of improvements we have seen and there can be no doubt we will see an ever-increasing amount of improvements in battery technologies. For any technology project involving batteries, the target should be set well ahead of where batteries are currently and where they will be when the project is done. Improvements in batteries are coming on at an accelerating clip as more electrification of everything is accelerating.
For electric planes to really take off and for electric cars to travel far longer distances between charges, we'll need batteries that pack far more energy without becoming prohibitively heavy. A team in Germany has now demonstrated a new lithium-metal battery with a density well beyond the…
New developments in battery technology are coming at an ever-accelerating rate as the amount of research on them is increasing and any business or research planning should take this into account. This is just one in a long string of improvements we have seen and there can be no doubt we will see an ever-increasing amount of improvements in battery technologies. For any technology project involving batteries, the target should be set well ahead of where batteries are currently and where they will be when the project is done. Improvements in batteries are coming on at an accelerating clip as more electrification of everything is accelerating.
For electric planes to really take off and for electric cars to travel far longer distances between charges, we'll need batteries that pack far more energy without becoming prohibitively heavy. A team in Germany has now demonstrated a new lithium-metal battery with a density well beyond the…
For once this looks like it might genuinely be a big step forward in battery technology, it doesn't rely on any exotic materials and only has about 5% cobalt which is better than existing NMC cells.
Usual disclaimers about how this can be scaled up to mass production, but no obvious blocking points from reading through the paper
For once this looks like it might genuinely be a big step forward in battery technology, it doesn't rely on any exotic materials and only has about 5% cobalt which is better than existing NMC cells.
Usual disclaimers about how this can be scaled up to mass production, but no obvious blocking points from reading through the paper
I agree with you completely, but more and more advancements are being made, and learning from failures is just part of the advancement process. Generally, more failures mean an acceleration of the accumulation of knowledge of a particular area, and batteries are no exception. The amount of resources devoted to batteries and energy storage of all types is moving at an ever-accelerating rate now and for the immediate future until a number of breakthrough solutions are found and implemented.
It is, but the press (and NewAtlas is a prime culprit) regularly gets all enthusiastic about some radical new battery technology which turns out to be pure lab-only and impossible to scale up, uses exotic materials, or is just plain pie-in-the-sky theory -- you know, like long-range electric planes or flying cars or...
So it makes a nice change to find one which looks like it might actually make it out of the lab and into the big wide world. Still, I'll believe it when I see it... ;-)
For once this looks like it might genuinely be a big step forward in battery technology, it doesn't rely on any exotic materials and only has about 5% cobalt which is better than existing NMC cells.
Usual disclaimers about how this can be scaled up to mass production, but no obvious blocking points from reading through the paper
All current "solid" state, and metal lithium cells do have a sponge like layer to mechanically hold lithium metal. It's not like there is a literal brick of lithium there.
They don't take it into weight calculations.
Anodes are not that of a big portion of modern lithium cells' mass.
Good graphite can weigh as few as 20% of cell mass, possibly less with all that new "nanagraphite" thing.
All current "solid" state, and metal lithium cells do have a sponge like layer to mechanically hold lithium metal. It's not like there is a literal brick of lithium there.
They don't take it into weight calculations.
Anodes are not that of a big portion of modern lithium cells' mass.
Good graphite can weigh as few as 20% of cell mass, possibly less with all that new "nanagraphite" thing.
New battery and semi technologies are coming out at an accelerating clip due to technology feeding on itself and enabling research and testing costs to come down dramatically in many areas. This now is applicable to all technologies and the rate of change is coming at an ever-accelerating rate. This by its very nature implies there will also be an accelerating rate of failures, which are learning experiences in themselves.
The rate of battery technology progression is rather linear, if not inverted parabolic. You fundamentally can't beat the maximum possible density afforded by the chemistry, and all battery chemistries are already somewhere half-way to the maximum realistically possible energy densities.
Gotta laugh everytime headlines come out about doubling battery life. Even a 5-10% increase per year is seen as a monumental task with the big incumbent battery companies spending billions cumulatively in R&D and then some tiny research team claims double the battery life...mm hmm. Not that I don't believe them, but will it scale? How's the cycle life? Handle vibrations? High and low temp operations? Huge laundry list of qualifications to meet before even considering the viability of mass production, these headlines just look like the boy who cried wolf, nobody cares.
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