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Release the HN battery naysayers in 3…2…1… For good reason, I think. I imagine the plight of a poor tech reporter. The upside of real advances in battery tec

Release the HN battery naysayers in 3…2…1… For good reason, I think. I imagine the plight of a poor tech reporter. The upside of real advances in battery tech are huge, so a scoop would get a lot of clicks. But in the absence of step-change inventions, we have incremental improvements in boring areas like “recharge cycles” which make terrible news articles. So our intrepid tech reporter must ignore all that real but unsexy stuff. There is a source of zingy articles though: pr releases about unproven tech which are likely meant to pump up investment activity.

vikramkr 2y ago
They're saying an energy density of 1000 wh/l, not saying per kg in the headline. Looking it up, the 1000 wh/l seems to be a bit above what a bunch of random internet sources say lithium batteries do on average (300-700 wh/l). So, might be a step change in solid state (compared to their old version) but not sure how it stacks up in the bigger scheme of things. They aren't promising world changing impacts either, just better batteries for wearables and stuff. Will be interesting to see how they commercialize it for sure.