[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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(TXT) w3m dump (www.construction-physics.com)
| 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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