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Are there any main reasons for this? I'd assume conservative and long-design time downstream users mean there isn't a volume market for new battery tech.
by ethbro 8y ago
Are there any main reasons for this?
I'd assume conservative and long-design time downstream users mean there isn't a volume market for new battery tech.
- Gibbon1 8y agoI'm assuming twofold; engineering for scale and marketing. Once you've sort of proven something in research you need to develop processes for manufacturing at scale. Those processes are often radically different than the one used during initial development. 10X rule applies. Take ten times the resources to bring something into production than to just design it. And worse with batteries you're dealing with primary materials. You may have needs for material inputs that simply do not exist at scale. No one makes material X in 100 metric ton quantities. The only source is a post doc making 100 gram batches. Sometimes the batches are bad for reasons unknown.