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I wonder why the researchers are more excited about space applications than electric cars.
by prideout 6y ago
I wonder why the researchers are more excited about space applications than electric cars.
- jaytaylor 6y agoAnother day, another far off promise of better battery tech ;) Always interesting to read and hear about it, and at the same time progress is frustratingly slow for what's available here in the real world.
- philipkglass 6y agoIt sounds like an implicit admission that it can deliver superior performance but is expected to be too expensive for large scale applications like electric vehicles. I prefer that over the hubris of press releases that say a battery recently demonstrated in the lab could change the whole world in 5-10 years.
- cestith 6y agoI'm a total lay person on this front, but I have an educated guess. Space is where the biggest monetary savings are gained by having a lighter battery. It's easier to offset the increased cost a young battery technology tends to have before economies of scale in manufacturing take over.