• BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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    31 minutes ago

    There are already companies mass producing solid state batteries with ~380KWh densities for a Litre, substantially better than Li-ion and safer as well since they don’t ignite. They just aren’t at the sort of scale yet where a lot of the market will be using them.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Assuming they are commercially viable otherwise they will become a patent on a shelf gathering dust like so many other breakthroughs in the last 20 years.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 hour ago

      That’s the beauty of Chinese state driven economy. The state can pour money into new technologies at a scale that no private business would ever do, which makes it possible to get to the point where new tech becomes commercially viable.