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The rapidly increasing amount of research on batteries of numerous types should start to pay off soon and give us a much broader range of options and costs. It's the old rule, "Follow the Money" and money, talent, and resources, and now being applied to battery technologies of numerous types on a scale unprecedented just a few short years ago. How batteries are now and where they will be in ten years are going to be vastly different. Even if the vast majority of experimentation in this area fails, we will see numerous successes with many different charateristics for different applications. Betting against technologies advancing at an ever-increasing rate has been a fool's game. There are at least a hundred technologies being worked on and many unpublicized and being kept dark for a variety of reasons. The link below gives just a very few examples. Any car or expensive application should be made so the new battery technologies can be incorporated at a later date if at all possible.
The rapidly increasing amount of research on batteries of numerous types should start to pay off soon and give us a much broader range of options and costs. It's the old rule, "Follow the Money" and money, talent, and resources, and now being applied to battery technologies of numerous types on a scale unprecedented just a few short years ago. How batteries are now and where they will be in ten years are going to be vastly different. Even if the vast majority of experimentation in this area fails, we will see numerous successes with many different charateristics for different applications. Betting against technologies advancing at an ever-increasing rate has been a fool's game. There are at least a hundred technologies being worked on and many unpublicized and being kept dark for a variety of reasons. The link below gives just a very few examples. Any car or expensive application should be made so the new battery technologies can be incorporated at a later date if at all possible.
Lots of promises, no delivery yet just like all the other massive battery advantages promised over the years. The pocket-lint article is written by somebody who is basically recycling publicity claims from battery companies or research groups, some of which have already been debunked on this forum (e.g. some of the density claims).
Batteries are *not* like semis, their performance (especially capacity/density) is limited by basic physics and chemistry. There's no evidence of any equivalent to the fundamental semiconductor technology advances like Cu/EUV/FinFETs/nanosheets that lead to a new process node every couple of years with maybe 50% better performance.
The only exception is charging speed, which is more relevant to cellphones than cars -- if you want to charge a 100kWh car in 5 minutes you need a 2MW power source, and charger/cables that can support this. Not impossible but *very* expensive for both vehicle, charger and grid -- maybe a tiny fraction of the market (e.g. Porsche drivers) will pay a big premium (including vehicle cost) for this, but most won't.
*Please* stop repeatedly claiming that "batteries are like semiconductors" (this is at least the third time you've done this); they're simply not, and it just comes across as hype.
Unless of course you have investments in battery companies and this is deliberate... ;-)
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