94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery

Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by hourislate on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:43PM (#13778992)

Wouldn't it be great if this could get to market. Almost sounds to good to be true. Maybe I missed it but are there any working prototypes out there in a vehicle or some kind of device or is this just in a lab?

You would think there would be folks all over this if it were the case. I wonder what is holding it up?

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by gizmonty on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:48PM (#13779041)

It's taken 25 years for Li-ion batteries to get from the lab to the current level of industrial production. If this technology pans out it will probably take a similar time to do the same - maybe a bit faster given the greater interest in batteries now.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by kbenson on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:52PM (#13779072)

I imagine (hope!) that the much larger industry and greater need for large scale commodity batteries (electric cars) can speed this up considerably, and not just a bit.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by elastic_church on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:59PM (#13779129)

and cheap credit in Europe! Make it happen!

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by jaimex2 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:08PM (#13779210)

Also keep in mind Tesla exists now and they do push the envelope. If this tech has any merit I would expect them to jump on it.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by mahyarm on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:36PM (#13779406)

So this guy was 67 when Li-ion batteries started from the lab. And invented the li-ion battery at 57! Pretty impressive!

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