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A 3x capacity increase is huuuge but a >10x cost increase is prohibitive except for applications like aircraft.
by CarVac 6y ago
A 3x capacity increase is huuuge but a >10x cost increase is prohibitive except for applications like aircraft.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoMedical devices, wireless headsets, phones, drones, various pro-grade cameras and gear - there are many devices where expensive batteries would still be economical. For some apllications, you need fixed amount of power, perhaps you could have 3 times less batties, at 3x the price. That frees up space and reduces weight.
- lostapathy 6y agoRight. Maybe not a good bargain for cars, but for a lot of things with tiny to small batteries it’d be well worth it.
- moron4hire 6y agoDepends on what proportion of the BOM the electrodes represent. If the electrodes are, say, 1% of the cost of making a battery, than a 1000% increase in the cost of the electrode only adds 9% to the cost of the battery.
- moftz 6y agoCost of manufacturing something like this can only go down and there are plenty of applications where mass or power output/battery life of a device is much more important than cost.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoWould somebody buy an IPhone with 1-week charge, if it was double the price? Probably.