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It seems that every week there is a press announcement from a university or other research organization touting a "breakthrough" in battery technology. But these "breakthroughs" rarely seem to materialize in commercially available batteries.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/09/20170907-nwu.html
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/09/20170907-nwu.html
...The path to bringing more efficient, effective, and economical batteries to market over the last 25 years is overwhelmingly littered with failure…
...Now, however, in a recent paper published in MRS Energy & Sustainability, Vinayak Dravid, the Abraham Harris chaired professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering...propose an updated model of US battery commercialization…
...With more economical and energy-dense batteries holding the potential to solve contemporary energy challenges—such as balancing the intermittency problems of renewables and making possible electric transportation fleets—the researchers believe applying the pharma-inspired development pipeline to batteries can breed rich, transformative technologies...