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Li-ion Battery Technologies: Understanding Their Development Path

Battery electricity storage is an over 200 year-old technology but remains one of the least developed technologies that we are seriously trying to improve. Ironically, electricity production is one of the easiest experiments a kid can do using a few simple ingredients, but massive storage of same is one of the most difficult things to accomplish, proven by limited real progress over those 200+ years.

A goal of battery electricity storage that would enable a car to travel the same distance as that provided by a tank of gas seems to be a benchmark that is still decades out yet, and it may never be accomplished practically unless an unknown technology is introduced. It may come to be that the best answer will be self-generation and storage combined in order to gain that desired benchmark. We have made much more progress in generation than in storage, so maybe nature is telling us something to which we should be listening more closely.