[HN Gopher] How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
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       How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery
        
       Author : JumpCrisscross
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-11-29 14:07 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | decatur wrote:
       | > has fallen by more than 97% per kilowatt-hour
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       | So how much did it fall per MWh?
        
         | akamaka wrote:
         | By the pound, they're 99.1% cheaper.
        
         | epistasis wrote:
         | You're not going to believe this, but they have also fallen by
         | 97% per MWh.
        
         | usrusr wrote:
         | Even more: in the old days, any buyer slurping up production by
         | the MWh would have noticeably tipped the balance of supply and
         | demand.
        
       | oulipo wrote:
       | 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
        
         | thevagrant wrote:
         | That's pretty cool. Are you on target to ship?
        
       | xutopia wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | phtrivier wrote:
       | The most instructive (how much research has zig zagged) and
       | depressing (how far we still are from what we needed
       | yesterdecade) reading.
        
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