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> Goodenough and his team aren't quite finished with the new battery. They've only created the glass-based anode. But they're working out kinks with the cathode
by sgift 8y ago
> Goodenough and his team aren't quite finished with the new battery. They've only created the glass-based anode. But they're working out kinks with the cathode, and soon they'll be able to make some large-scale cells.
This seems like one of these sentences which you kind of miss on the first read and many years later when you wonder "what happened to that wonder battery?" "Remember the cathode we thought was almost done? Turns out it wasn't."
Until they have produced that thing at scale it is still part of a long list of research products in the battery sector, which may never be available.
- SEJeff 8y agoBut when they do, Tesla will be the first and only company to have it! Think about that for a moment. It makes it harder (read: more expensive) for the competition, when Tesla is already making better batteries (per independent analysts) than all of their competition.
- ineedasername 8y agoIf they do. Not when. And there are any number of other promising areas of battery research that another manufacturer might bring to fruition and would eliminate this competitive advantage. If we're speculating on breakthroughs, that's a sword that cuts both ways.