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That's ironically why we don't see new battery tech materialize. It has to come out of the gate more cost efficient than Li Ion, which is a tall order now with
by eloff 6y ago
That's ironically why we don't see new battery tech materialize. It has to come out of the gate more cost efficient than Li Ion, which is a tall order now with all the efficiencies of scale the latter enjoys. I believe the term technological lock in is used to describe this problem.
- choeger 6y agoThat's not entirely true. The technique to mass-produce Li ion cells (basically: create massive sandwiches and roll them) can probably be applied to most other chemistries.
- eloff 6y agoI think that's mostly only superficially similar, but I'm not an expert in the field.
- bluGill 6y agoChemically it is hard to believe that we can do better than lithium anyway.
- eloff 6y agoI don't know about that, but we could definitely do cheaper though.