As much as I hate sensational headlines about batteries, my phone charges zero to full in 20 minutes. The changes just come very gradually, like +5% per year, but they do add up.
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As much as I hate sensational headlines about batteries, my phone charges zero to full in 20 minutes. The changes just come very gradually, like +5% per year, but they do add up.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 days ago
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For sure, who would interact with a +2% in longevity for sodium batteries article …
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 days ago
Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.