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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by datadeft on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:29AM (#35650755)
> World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density > This is a little under 2x the density of current batteries.

Anything less than a ~400x increase is a minor breakthrough based on my expectations. I would like to charge my phone once a year.

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by Triesault on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:59AM (#35650952)
Do you not feel this is an unreasonable expectation? I wouldn’t think we would ever get to the point where phones are only charged once a year. This assumes that power consumption would not increase over time.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by Tade0 on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:11AM (#35651017)
It's possible that this was sarcasm relating to how people like to move goalposts all the time regarding EVs.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by oblio on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:25AM (#35651094)
Yup, OP forgot engineers also expand.
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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by datadeft on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:59PM (#35657607)
I don’t think so.
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