How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery

46 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by JumpCrisscross

10 Comments

oulipo

3 hours ago

Small self-plug: we're engineers / designers from France who built a repairable and fireproof e-bike li-ion battery! If you're interested in the concept, we're looking for resellers everywhere! Check it at https://get.gouach.com

beAbU

30 minutes ago

Why is this always the top voted comment on any battery related post?

thevagrant

2 hours ago

That's pretty cool. Are you on target to ship?

ggm

2 hours ago

I would argue a dynamic tension between IPR exploiters investing and state funded public interest had helped. It depends on time, cost and difficulty, with breakthroughs in both domains.

xutopia

2 hours ago

What a nice read and I love the conclusion! So often it's really hard to know why something will make it big but with hindsight so easy to understand why it did.

phtrivier

2 hours ago

The most instructive (how much research has zig zagged) and depressing (how far we still are from what we needed yesterdecade) reading.

decatur

4 hours ago

> has fallen by more than 97% per kilowatt-hour

So how much did it fall per MWh?

epistasis

3 hours ago

You're not going to believe this, but they have also fallen by 97% per MWh.

usrusr

2 hours ago

Even more: in the old days, any buyer slurping up production by the MWh would have noticeably tipped the balance of supply and demand.

akamaka

3 hours ago

By the pound, they’re 99.1% cheaper.