The Hidden Problem With Battery Breakthroughs

The Hidden Problem With Battery Breakthroughs. Go to https://surfshark.com/undecided or use code UNDECIDED at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Battery breakthroughs make big promises, and a lot of you tell me they never go anywhere. So I went back through the new battery technology I covered over the last few years. One sand battery is now heating a Finnish town, but a liquid metal battery ran out of money after 15 years, and another company killed its own battery to save itself. I scored each one on the Technology Readiness Level scale, from an idea on a whiteboard to something customers already use. So are these breakthroughs actually reaching customers? Or is the road from lab to market just too long?

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro

01:27 - Polar Night's Sand Battery

03:02 - Rondo Energy's Brick Battery

05:19 - GMC's Graphene-Aluminum Battery

06:20 - Gelion's Zinc Bromine Battery

08:01 - Lyten's Sulfur Battery

08:26 - Antora's Graphite Block Heat Battery

10:33 - Ambri's Liquid Metal Battery

11:21 - Avanti's Aluminum-Sulfur Battery

12:01 - The Final Scoreboard